Red-shafted flickers are found from southeastern Alaska and southwestern Canada down through the western United States to Guatemala. Migrants, usually hybrids may occur in the western part of the eastern United States.
The Red-shafted Flicker resides in western North America. They are red under the tail and underwings and have red shafts on their primaries. They have a beige cap and a grey face. Males have a red moustache.
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The Red-shafted Flicker also hybridizes with the Gilded Flicker, but less frequently.
The Northern Flicker is one of the few North American woodpeckers that is strongly migratory.
The red-shafted flicker has pinkish feathers on the inside of its wings and the male has a red mustache. The red-shafted flicker is common in the west. The gilded flicker can be found in the deserts of southeastern California and southern Arizona.
The Gilded Flicker can be told from the "Red-shafted Flicker" by its yellow underwings and from the "Yellow-shafted Flicker" by its lack of red at the rear of the head, pale brown cap and pale gray face, a paler brown back, ...
The "red-shafted flicker" (red under wings) migrates shorter distances. Other In the Civil War (1860-1865), Confederate soldiers from Alabama were called "Yellowhammers" because of the yellow cloth on their uniforms.
Previously known as the red-shafted flicker, the Northern flicker has a conspicuous white rump patch and salmon-colored wing undersides that are distinctly visible during its slow, bouncy flight.
Yellow-shafted Flicker, Colaptes (auratus) auratus
Red-shafted Flicker, Colaptes (auratus) cafer
Guadalupe Flicker, Colaptes auratus/cafer rufipileus - extinct (c.1910) ...
A subspecies of the Red-shafted Flicker (or the Northern Flicker, as C. auratus rufipileus), it was last recorded in 1906 and not found anymore in 1911 and 1922.
An individual with bright salmon-red underwings and undertail and a red "whisker" stripe, evidently a "Red-shafted Flicker" (one of the cafer group of subspecies), spent several days in June 1971 around the house of Warden and Mrs.
Here the army got the upper hand so the Indians wisely road away to fight another day. There are good birds here as well: Turkey, Say's Phoebe, Western Meadowlark, Lark Sparrow, Red-shafted Flicker, Cedar Waxwings.
The yellow-shafted flicker is known by many local names (e.g., high hole and yellowhammer) and interbreeds with the red-shafted flicker.
 See also: Flicker, Woodpecker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Northern Flicker, Yellowhammer
  
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