Harry:
Your flicker is an intergrade. It shows the red-nape crescent of a
yellow-shafted but a grayish face and orange feather shafts of red-shafted.
Shawneen
On Jan 17, 2019, at 5:59 PM, Harry Fuller <atowhee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The flicker has an iridescent red collar on the back of its neck...are David
Sibley and other field guide authors and I the only birders who never
noticed???
On my blog I show my blurry images thru a window and they "clearly" show the
collar that is some open secret in flickerdom;
https://atowhee.blog/2019/01/17/our-neighbors-visit-daily/ ;
<https://atowhee.blog/2019/01/17/our-neighbors-visit-daily/>
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Harry Fuller
author of: San Francisco's Natural History: Sand Dunes to Streetcars:
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/sfnh/ ;
<https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/sfnh/>
author of Great Gray Owls of CA-OR-WA:
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-great-gray-owl-book/ ;
<https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-great-gray-owl-book/>
author of Freeway Birding: freewaybirding.com <http://freewaybirding.com/>
birding website: http://www.towhee.net ;<http://www.towhee.net/>
my birding blog: atowhee.wordpress.com <http://atowhee.wordpress.com/>
