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Colaptes is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The 14 species are found across the Americas. The 14 species are found across the Americas. Colaptes woodpeckers typically have a brown or green back and wings with black barring, and a beige to yellowish underside, with black spotting or barring.
The green-barred woodpecker or green-barred flicker (Colaptes melanochloros) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay .
The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands , and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate .
Described by John Gould in 1837, it is a black and white bird 28 to 32 cm (11 to 12.5 in) long with a long hooked bill. Its head and throat are black, making a distinctive hood; the mantle and much of the tail and wings are also black. The neck, underparts and outer wing feathers are white.
Fernandina's flicker breeds between March and June; [2] during courtship, pairs regularly engage in high-flying chases. Like all woodpeckers, it is a cavity nester.Recent fieldwork has shown that it prefers to use nest holes started by West Indian woodpeckers (Melanerpes superciliaris); the flicker drives off the original owners, finishes off the excavation work, and moves in. [5] The female ...
Chilean flicker Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae Genus: Colaptes Species: C. pitius Binomial name Colaptes pitius (Molina, 1782) The Chilean flicker (Colaptes pitius) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in ...
Immature birds have pale edges on the upper wing coverts and some brownish-grey feathers on the back. [3] The black-and-white hawk-eagle is hard to confuse with any other bird in its range with the exception of juvenile Grey-headed Kites. These birds are known to mimic several species of hawk-eagles. [4]
Along the center, the image is divided into complementary black (right) and white (left), or, as the title suggests, day and night. The birds of the image contradict the overall partition of black and white throughout the image, as the black birds are in the white part of the image, while the white birds are in the black part, each of them ...