Subject: FLICKER OF NO COLOR!
Date: Jan 29 20:24:23 2000
From: Maureen Ellis - me2 at u.washington.edu


Folks,
It's been a crazy series of seasons for oddities showing up in the past
few years....... I spent a week in SE AZ in mid Jan......looked at number
of Gilded Flickers........ Is it possible that these odd flickers are
immature GILDED Flickers, a bit far from their usual haunts, but other
stuff has been drifting up from the south. Eh?
Cheers,
Maureen Ellis me2 at u.washington.edu U of WA & Burien-Seahurst Park, WA

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jacki Bricker wrote:

> Interestingly enough, I have a similar one here, in Woodinville, as well.
> (S)/He visits my suet feeder on a regular basis.
>
> His/her back is entirely brown and drab-colored, and only has a small collar
> on it's neck (above it's breast), indicating to me that it's a flicker
> (well, that and the fact that it has the same size, girth, bill, underbelly
> spotting, and tail as a flicker, as well).
>
> I'd be curious also to know if it's juvenile plumage, or an anomalous female
> that's extraordinarily...drab/well-camouflaged (depending on how you want to
> look at it).
>
> -Jacki Bricker
> Woodinville, Washington
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Today I spotted a FLICKER of NO COLOR! No nape, no moustache, and NO wing
> color. Could this have been an immature female, or just a drab flicker?
> Bird was
> hanging out with crows and starlings at the Tyee High School track.
>
>