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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 online edition of the Handbook of the Birds of the World has split five of the species listed above to give a total of 20 species in the genus. None of the splits were based on results of molecular genetic studies. In addition, the common name of the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) was changed to the "yellow-shafted flicker". [8]
Northern flicker: Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) 158 Guatemalan flicker: Colaptes mixicanoides Lafresnaye, 1844: 159 Gilded flicker: Colaptes chrysoides (Malherbe, 1852) 160 Bermuda flicker: Colaptes oceanicus Olson, 2013: 161 Fernandina's flicker: Colaptes fernandinae Vigors, 1827: 162 Chilean flicker: Colaptes pitius (Molina, 1782) 163 ...
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.
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...
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The various subspecies differ in plumage, the general pattern being that northern forms are larger, heavier-billed and whiter beneath, as predicted by Bergmann's rule, so north Eurasian D. m. major and D. m. kamtschaticus are large and strikingly white, whereas D. m. hispanicus in Iberia and D. m. harterti in Corsica and Sardinia are somewhat ...
The Guatemalan flicker was described in 1844 by Frédéric de Lafresnaye under the name Colaptes mexicanoides. [3] It was later classified as a subspecies of Northern flicker. Studies in 2023 found that the Guatemalan flicker diverged as a species even earlier than the Gilded flicker. [4] Differences were also found in vocalizations.