Flicker on a Pine
by Donna Kennedy
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Flicker on a Pine
Artist
Donna Kennedy
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Photograph - Photographs
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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy...
Texture added for an artistic enhancement-edited in Topaz Studio
Male Northern Flicker on a Pine tree-Autumn in 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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May 28th, 2019
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