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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 .
The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of Baja California, except the extreme northwestern region.
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.
Lewis's woodpecker: Melanerpes lewis (Gray, GR, 1849) 35 Guadeloupe woodpecker: Melanerpes herminieri (Lesson, RP, 1830) 36 Puerto Rican woodpecker: Melanerpes portoricensis (Daudin, 1803) 37 Red-headed woodpecker: Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) 38 Acorn woodpecker: Melanerpes formicivorus (Swainson, 1827) 39 Yellow-tufted woodpecker
Acorn woodpecker: C C C C Red-breasted sapsucker - - U U Nuttall's woodpecker: U U U U Downy woodpecker: F F F F Hairy woodpecker: F F F F Northern flicker: C C C C Pileated woodpecker: U U U U Olive-sided flycatcher: U U - - Western wood-pewee: F F - - Pacific-slope flycatcher: C C C - Black phoebe: F F F F Say's phoebe - - U U Ash-throated ...
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
As a woodpecker, its diet is composed greatly of insects, which it gains from drilling into bark. [7] Gila woodpeckers are omnivorous, and do take fruits, nectar, seeds, as well as lizards, eggs, worms, and even young chicks of small birds. [6] They are even known to hang on human placed hummingbird feeders and sip up the nectar. [4]
Most woodpeckers are sedentary, but a few examples of migratory species are known, such as the rufous-bellied woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, [17] and Eurasian wryneck, which breeds in Europe and west Asia and migrates to the Sahel in Africa in the winter. [19]