Hmmmm,

The Flickers I've seen down here in the Kent area have had nice, pale to
moderate red undertones on their wings. The one I saw yesterday had a
strong orange undertone on its wings. Very striking.

Serious ornithologists and zoologists please speak up!

Thanks,
Lydia
----- Original Message -----
From: Nene W <northwestmom at yahoo.com>
To: <lgaebe at email.msn.com>; Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: FLICKER! Red-yellow Shafted Hybrid?


> Lydia, ALL of the flickers in our neighborhood are
> Orange. I mean orange like the Crayola crayon orange,
> like an orange peel orange, like a carrot orange. I
> always assumed that (color interpretation being the
> subjective thing it can be) our Red-Shafted flickers
> in this area were really orange-shafted but were just
> called Red-shafted the way chestnut horses are called
> "red". I've never seen a flicker with RED-red
> coloration, just this orange color.
>
> I have quite a few (10) flicker feathers from beneath
> my feeder, stuck in the board by my computer here, and
> they are definitely orange (varying degrees between
> 1635 and 1655 on my Pantone fan).
>
> I get the feeling that somewhere, someplace, are
> Red-Shafted Flickers that are MUCH more red, than
> orange, and that this is one of those local phenomenon
> things (I don't get out much to verify this myself).
>
> Does anyone else who knows more about Flickers care to
> enlighten us any further on this?
>
> Danene Warnock
> Bellevue, WA
> northwestmom at yahoo.com
>
>
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