Two Flickers
by Donna Kennedy
Title
Two Flickers
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy...
Two male Flickers were chasing each other around this tree, I think they were challenging each other for the females as Spring closes in. Photo taken in February at San Rafael Park, Reno Nevada
Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus ) are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don't be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It's not where you would expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill. When they fly you will see a flash of color in the wings-yellow if you're in the East, red if you're in the West-and a bright white flash on the rump. Its ringing calls and short bursts of drumming can be heard in spring almost throughout North America. Two very different-looking forms -- Yellow-shafted Flicker in the east and north, and Red-shafted Flicker in the west -- were once considered separate species. They interbreed wherever their ranges come in contact. On the western Great Plains, there is a broad zone where all the flickers are intergrades between Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted.
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November 25th, 2016
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Comments (81)
Nancy Griswold
Oh my goodness! Such a fabulous photograph of the flicker birds, what a great image FAV+/L
Kay Brewer
Donna, congratulations on this beautiful art being featured on the home page of The 200 Club! l/f
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Congratulations, your beautiful photography has been featured on the home page of The 200 Club- best photos between 200 and 500 views.