On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Wes Jansen wrote:

> All this flicker talk reminded me of a walk in the Montlake Fill about
> three years ago where I saw what appeared to be a yellow-shafted flicker.
> The red was definitely on the nape of the neck. I was curious how many
> other birders out there have seen any yellow-shafted, or perhaps hybrid
> flickers in Washington?

On the CBC two years ago in Olympia, we scared up several flickers in a
field. At least two were basically yellow as I recall and at least one
looked like a hybrid. I think a check of locally collected bird skins
would show great introgression of yellow genes into local populations.

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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