[obol] Re: "Yellow"-shafted Flicker was an intergrade, not Yellow-sh.
- From: Jamie Simmons <sapsuckers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lars Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>, OBOL-to post <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:57:03 -0800
Lars and all,
Lars, the Yellow-shafted Flicker you reported in December (12/8 on OBOL)
you described as having "all the marks of that subspecies but the
mustachial streak, which was red." That makes it not a Yellow-shafted, but
rather an intergrade Northern Flicker since it had characteristics of both
Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted forms.
Intergrade Northern Flickers are regularly found in Oregon, especially in
winter.
Apparent pure Yellow-shafted forms are seen too, but much less frequently.
Jamie Simmons
Corvallis
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Last November I saw a flicker on the dead end part of VanBuren, west of
> 35th St in Corvallis. It had all the field marks of a Yellow-shafted
> Flicker but the black mustache. I saw it daily for a few weeks. A flicker
> just took off from the neighbor's fence and it had yellow under-wings. Of
> course I can't say for sure it's the same bird. The sapsucker I saw last
> November never made a second appearance. I heard a Rufous Hummingbird here
> on Feb 27. Surely on the early side for Corvallis. Lars
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