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Northern Flicker intergrade or hybrid reappears

See that vibrant red patch on the back of this male woodpecker’s head? He obligingly turned so that I could capture both his red whisker stripe below the eye and a black bib, as well as his bright red nape made brighter perhaps by a bit of light from the south. (It is, of course, a rainy day.) The red whisker appears more frequently on the Red-shafted Northern Flicker. The black bib appears on the Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker.

 

And, of course, with the orangish inner tail feathers rather than the goldish-yellow, he looks more similar to the others that flock here: mainly Red-shafted Northern Flickers.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/id

 

Have yet to spot a Yellow-shafted flicker in the back forty.

 

Thanks for sharing my enthusiasm!

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Uploaded on December 13, 2021
Taken on December 13, 2021