Gilded flicker Colaptes chrysoides
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Length: 10 inches
Large woodpecker
Pale brown cap and nape
Pale gray face, chin, and throat
Pale brown back and wings barred with black
Black crescent on upper breast ...
The Gilded Flicker's range is already severely restricted. Preserving the Sonoran Desert and protecting its large cacti are the two most important conservation issues for the flicker.
Gilded Flicker, Colaptes chrysoides. The species name chrysoides means "like gold".
Fernandina's Flicker, Colaptes fernandinae, an endangered bird native to Cuba. Fernandina was an early name for Cuba.
Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides)
Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis)
Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) ...
The Northern Flicker is a large (10 to 11-inch) woodpecker that includes five subspecies: yellow-shafted flicker, red-shafted flicker, gilded flicker, Guatemalen flicker and Cuban flicker.
There are five subspecies of northern flicker: the yellow-shafted flicker, the red-shafted flicker, the gilded flicker, the Guatemalan flicker, and the Cuban flicker and throat color, ...
The cactus wren and California thrasher often build their nests in the buckhorn cholla. The gila woodpeckers and gilded flickers chop burros in the long arms of the Saguaro Cactus.
What are the main threats to cacti?
zone between Yellow- and Red-shafted subspecies appears stable; no evidence for preferential mating of birds with similar plumage-types within hybrid zone. Early clutches larger than later ones; clutches larger in n. Clutches of Gilded Flicker ...
Black-backed Woodpecker, Picoides arcticus
Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus
Gilded Flicker, Colaptes chrysoides
Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis (E) ...
 See also: Flicker, Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Red-shafted Flicker, Yellow-shafted Flicker
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