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> There was a continuing thread a couple of months ago about hybridized
> flickers. Yesterday I saw a thoroughly hybridized individual at the Skagit
> headquarters, adjacent the boat launch parking lot (Skagit County, NW
> Washington, for the non-Washingtonian folks).
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> This flicker had a yellow undertail, red wings, moustache of alternating
> black & red bands, a red nape mark which was faint in the middle but fairly
> well-defined at each end, and a face which was partly gray and partly brown.
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> Do they come any more 'scrambled' than this?
>
> Dave Nunnallee

This is about as scrambled as they come. The ones I see here in Vancouver
are most like Red-shafted, but with a red moustache and nape patch, these
birds always have grey napes rather than brown. Sometimes there are a few
yellow shafted feathers in the plumage.

Al Jaramillo
jaramill at sfu.ca
Vancouver