I'm guessing you're right - birds with various mixes are pretty common,
even out here in the winter. Ocean Shores, where flickers abound in the
winter, is a good place to look for birds of mixed parentage, including
some that look like pure yellow-shafted. But Spearfish Canyon, SD is a
classic place to find hybrids of various eastern/western species. We
saw a Rose-breasted/Black-headed Grosbeak there once - really a striking
bird - maybe "Orange-breasted Grosbeak" would describe it best. They
get Bullock's/Baltimore Orioles, Indigo/Lazuli Buntings, etc.
Interesting area to bird, that's for sure.

Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
mailto:kraige at oclc.org

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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:47 AM
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Subject: [Tweeters] FLICKERS


JUST RETURNED FROM NE WYO/NW SOUTH DAKOTA,WHILE AT DC BOOTH NATIONAL
HISTORIC FISH HATCHERY IN SPEARFISH SD I SAW A FLICKER WITH A RED
MUSTACHE AND YELLOW UNDERWING/UNDERTAIL-I THOUGHT SURELY THIS IS A
HYBRID.MY COMPANIONS WERE NOT CONVINCED.WHO'S RIGHT?
PATRICK NELSON JR.
EATONVILLE,WA.
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