Gilded Flicker/Red-shafted
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Gilded Flicker/Red-shafted??
Colaptes chrysoides
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More information @
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Flicker.html
Map and range not to any scale, plus range may not be absolute.
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The field guides say, it's the only Flicker with a Golden under tail & a brown crown.
Of cours this is not to say this isn't a Red-shafted.
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On the Arizona - Mexico line I did find a Saguaro cactus with Flickers feeding young.
I can only assume these are Gilded Flickers based on the range mapes in the field guides.
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Male
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Female
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Male leaving nest with a fecal sack.
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One moring I came to take photographs and found one of the chicks
out side of the nest cavety a few feet from the nest,
and being fead by one of the parant birds.
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And here was its nest mate looking on.
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