There have been few verified records of the Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) nesting in New Mexico, with almost all of the nests being limited to the northern San Juan and Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Hubbard, Check-list of the birds of New Mexico, New Mexico Ornithol. Soc. Publ. No. 3, 1970:20–21). For the rest of New Mexico, only two nests have been reported: one near Silver City (Johnson and Harris, Condor 69:209, 1967) and the other in the San Mateo Range (Ligon, New Mexico birds and where to find them, New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish, Santa Fe, 1961:60–61). Ligon also reported several sightings in the Sacramento Mountains, though no nests have ever been reported.