Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Jaedon on April 11, 2007, 07:43:43 PM

Title: RFI
Post by: Jaedon on April 11, 2007, 07:43:43 PM

Is this a Flicker or maybe a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker?  My son fed my field guide to the toilet yesterday

(http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3610/rfi02gd9.jpg)

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Post by: Iain on April 11, 2007, 07:49:47 PM

Yellow-shafted Flicker, nice pic.

Title: ID
Post by: Bruce Colvin on April 12, 2007, 08:46:50 AM

It's a Northern Flicker: yellow-shafted race. The black mustache is difinative. If you find one with a red mustache, it is Northern Flicker of the red-shafted race - rare here.  They are one species and often interbreed and have an intermediate plumage. Good birding and good photo.

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Post by: Jaedon on April 12, 2007, 10:37:01 AM

Thank you for the ID.  I am trying to keep all my shots organized for this year for the first time.  It's so hard to learn so many birds ID's but I am glad you guys are around.  I have always appreciated our feathered friends but this is my first year really paying attention to all the different species around my house.