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Yellow-shafted Flicker

Colaptes auratus

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Description:

My dad brother and sister found this out along a creek out back. Took the photo on our kitchen table. It has remarkable black stripes on the upper part of the feather, with a softer, downy-like material on the bottom half.

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Comments (11)

Here's a pile of northern flicker feathers. This one you have here fits right in: http://goingtoseedinzone5.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/northern-flicker.jpg
oops wrong link: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/245986006
thank you jamie and cindy. while i'm at it, i have another spotting. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/245776017 those feathers were found in the same pile as this one. Same bird? or not? Anyone's imput? thanks...
ok i think i found something look at the very back tail feathers of this red bellied woodpecker see if any of those were like what you have here. http://b50ym1n8ryw31pmkr4671ui1c64.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/05/Blog_Red-belliedWoodpecker_HowardCheek_356425.jpg
Here is a wonderful references for bird feathers: http://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/
it also might be a woodpecker but their feathers a kind of stiff and are generally small.
thank you for your imput jamie. I will mark it as 'owl feather?' and see if anyone else has an opinion
this could be a down feather of an owl, like from an area on the stomach. I've never seen anything like it

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