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!
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!