Flicker Identification
Common Red-shafted Flickers and Yellow-shafted Flickers, as well
as Gilded Flickers comprise this important group of woodpeckers.
These very large woodpeckers are an easy bird for bird watchers to identify because of
their unique appearance. It is important to understand that common Flickers occur in
three color variants: the Red-Shafted Flicker of the west, the Yellow-Shafted Flicker
of the east, and the Gilded Flicker, which is a desert dweller. The Red-Shafted and
Yellow-Shafted Flickers hybridize in the great plains.
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