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Nous entendions le cris des jeunes depuis un moment, mais nous étions incapables de les localiser. Puis, on se retourne et voilà un des deux rejetons qui nous fait coucou !
We had heard the cries of the chicks for a while, but we were unable to locate them. Then, we turn and here is one of the two offspring saying hello !
at the end of the day...to my eye it looked like a dancer bending over in a bow, I wasn't sure what kind of bird it was as it was so dark, the lines of the branch simulating the lines of the bird brought all sorts of parallel worlds to my imagination.
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted female)
Colaptes auratus
ORDER: Piciformes
FAMILY: Picidae
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/overview
Colorado Springs, CO
The Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico including all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Golden yellow under wings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker found within the same region, which have red under wings. Wikipedia
This beautiful Gilded Flicker was flying around Golden Valley Arizona.
Look closely to spot this well-camouflaged female Northern Flicker at her nest in Montpelier, Idaho. Flickers are woodpeckers that nest in cavities they excavate in trees. I was very lucky to spot this hole, and learned that it was an active nest after waiting a few minutes for the bird to arrive.
There were seven eggs, and though it is impossible? to count, it looks like all the eggs hatched.
Mom and Pop are busy tending the newborns; feeding, cleaning, and feeding each other as they take turns tending the nest.
"Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants."
from allaboutbirds.org
Wikipedia: The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Para mi colega flickero Frank Olaya `[frankolayag].
Como puedes ver, sí que hay monos en los templos de Angkor y mi cámara dió cumplida cuenta de ello, pero creo que son los delfines de la auténtica reina de los templos. Ella estaba en lo más alto.
Pic Flamboyant / Northern Flicker
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Ahoy there, matey! So ye be landlubbin' on these veritable shores of Mutiny Bay, eh? Heard ye askin' 'bout those feathered critters, the Red-shafted Northern Flickers - the ones with salmon-colored undersides, feeding their juvenile charges? Well, ye've come to the right place!
See, these 'ere waters, Mutiny Bay - and the trees in which these woodpeckers dwell - be named for a bit o' ruckus back in the day. Some say British lads jumped ship and settled these parts, others whisper 'bout a mutiny by the Indian crew of a trading vessel, keen on the cargo and some whiskey, aye!
Now, those Northern Flickers, they be as common as barnacles on a boulder 'round these PNW parts. Ye can spot 'em easy – greyish brown backs with dark checked lines and spots on their bellies like sea charts speckled with black hearts.
And these ain't yer regular, tree-bound woodpeckers, mind ye. These flickers, they like to get down and dirty, hoppin' 'round on the ground, searchin' for ants and beetles with their long, sticky tongues. They've a proper knack for it, they do! Ye'll hear 'em too, a loud rattle or a sharp "klee-yer," sounds like a warning cry to stay off their bounty!
So next time ye spot one o' these Red-shafted Northern Flickers on Whidbey Island, remember the old tales of Mutiny Bay. And give 'em a nod, for they be a part of this island's wild spirit, just like the salty sea dogs of old (like me self).
Now, avast!
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