[Tweeters] yellow shafted hybrid flickerYes, so what you have there is not a hybrid, but an intergrade.

Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA denrockwell at surfbest.net

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From: Guttman, Burt
To: jbroadus at seanet.com ; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] yellow shafted hybrid flicker


Clarice Clark wrote, "I got good looks at the yellow shafted flicker at my suet feeder here in Puyallup. He has bright yellow shafts, and undertail, alright, but his moustache is red and there is a small red patch of red on his nape." Yeah, hybrid. Got some genes from here and some from there. Good example of why the two extremes aren't good species.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503



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