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Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker

Colaptes auratus

Photo by bjohnson
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Description:

Medium woodpecker with black-barred brown back, speckled breast. Head and face have gray with red on the back and gray on the legs and feet. Yellow under side of black tail and a black bib. This must be a yellow shafted flicker.

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Northern Flicker

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Comments (2)
bjohnson
In our area we usually see the yellow shafted flickers but I am going to really start looking to see if I ever see any red-shafted ones.
Darwin26
the species is seriously overlapped ~ i've had orange shafted Flickers and the parents are Red and Yellow - pretty much see them every day. Even in the Winter. nice pic too

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PublishedNovember 3, 2011

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