Northern Flicker Identification - All About Birds
Males in the East have a red nape, a black whisker, and yellow shafts on the flight and tail feathers. Males in the West have a red whisker while those in the East have a black whisker. The upperparts are mostly brownish-gray with black barring. White …
Northern Flicker | Audubon Field Guide
Western "Red-shafted" has salmon-pink under wings and tail, gray face, brown crown; male has red mustache stripe. Where the forms meet (southwestern Canada, western Great Plains) they interbreed freely, producing many intermediates. A loud, repeated flicker or wicka-wicka-wicka; also a loud kleeer.
Northern flicker - Wikipedia
The western red-shafted flicker (C. a. cafer) resides in western North America. It is red under the tail and underwings and has red shafts on its primaries. It has a beige cap and a gray face. Males have a red mustache.
Flickers: The Closer You Look, The Less Different They Are
2018年6月6日 · For birders, one of the many small delights of traveling cross-country is that moment when the flickers change. These pretty and common woodpeckers flash bright colors in their wings and tail—salmon-red in western North America and lemon-yellow in the East.
Flickers (Colaptes) - Birds of North America
The Yellow-shafted Flicker and the Red-shafted Flicker are known as northern flickers and are very similar to woodpeckers. The Yellow-shafted Flicker is found in the eastern half of North America whereas the Red-shafted Flicker is found in the western half of the continent.
Red-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus cafer) - NOFL - Birds of …
The Red-shafted Flicker is one of the two types of Northern Flickers, the Yellow-shafted Flicker being the other. This western flicker is a member of the woodpecker family.
Northern Flicker Guide (Colaptes auratus) - Birding Insider
Western birds have red shafts, in eastern USA and the Caribbean they are yellow, in Central America they are orange. Where subspecies overlap and hybridization occurs, features get mixed and birds cannot be easily assigned.
It’s Official: Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted ... - All About Birds
2021年3月19日 · Audubon was traveling along the Missouri River, and little did he know that he was in the hybrid zone where the eastern yellow-shafted forms of the Northern Flicker intermingle and interbreed with the western red-shafted forms.
Northern Flicker – Red-shafted, Yellow-shafted, Intergrades
2015年4月6日 · Northern Flickers have two subspecies: the Red-shafted Flicker (C. a. cafer) of western North America and the Yellow-shafted Flicker (C. a. auratus) of the east and far north. Their ranges are roughly divided by the Rocky Mountains except in the northern boreal forest, where the yellow-shafted range extends west across most of Alaska.
Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus - Birds of the World
2024年10月22日 · Two subspecies, the Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus auratus) of eastern North America and the Red-shafted Flicker (C. a. cafer) of western North America, form a long, narrow hybrid zone in the Great Plains that parallels the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains and crosses the Canadian Rockies extending to southern Alaska. This hybrid ...
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