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  • Scientific names
    • Colaptes auratus cafer
    • Colaptes auratus
    • Colaptes auratus
  • Spanish
    • Carpintero de pechera
  • English
    • Northern Flicker
    • red-shafted flicker
    • Yellow-shafted flicker
  • French
    • pic flamboyant

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Recent Observations

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Observer

meganwaskom

Date

May 22, 2012 03:11 PM PDT

Description

A bird with a kind of long skinny beak

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What

Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

Observer

aclay232

Date

the past

Description

Beautiful red on back/nape or neck, otherwise brown with small black spots on plumage, no spots on head. Pecking at something perhaps an insect between cement crack, I'm pretty sure they like to eat insects and beetles.

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Observer

stingraydoctor

Date

May 19, 2012 07:49 AM PDT
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Description from Wikipedia

The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized member of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, is one of the few woodpecker species that migrates, and is the only woodpecker that commonly feeds on the ground. There are over 100 common names for the Northern Flicker. Among them are: Yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many...

Source: BirdLife International (2011) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/07/2011.