Don,

No. The Gilded Flicker is a non-migratory near species of the Sonoran
desert. Our hybrids are just that, or intergrades might be a better
term. They "mimic" the Gilded Flicker pattern.

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 21 Nov 1994, Don Baccus wrote:

> Here in Portland, the occasional flicker with yellow shafts is the
> gilded flicker (yellow shafts, but red-shafted head pattern).
>
> Are you sure your "black duck" isn't a mallard/domestic mish-mash?
>
> -Don Baccus-
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