Apr
06
Northern Flicker
ByAlison took this great picture of a Yellow-shafted Flicker in eastern Nebraska this weekend.
You don’t have to go too much west of the Missouri River before the flickers get all orangey, but in the extreme east, most of them in breeding season are at least visually pure, with golden flight-feather shafts and nice red nuchal crescents. This male had solid black malars on both sides, too. Nebraska birders don’t pay these beauties much mind, but we stood open-mouthed at more than one this past weekend.
5 Comments
April 6th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
You can almost understand the old split when seeing a variant that you do not observe on the regular basis.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Yes, but orange birds and birds with multicolored malars become common, even prevalent, as you move west along the Platte, which is where much of the work that resulted in the ‘lump’ was carried out in the 1950s.
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