A Northern Flicker was my first guess for the feather, but none of the
flickers in our collection had such a black and white pattern. All the
flicker feathers that match the pattern had a wash of orange on the
mottling. However, as I said in the prior post (which must have crossed
yours in transmission) it does seem to have more color in the rachis than
the raptors, so I'm not sure of that one.



Kelly Cassidy







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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Andrea
Woolley
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:27 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Bird remains identified :)



Dear Tweets,



Thank you everyone for sending me your thoughts on the bird carcass I was
trying to ID. I have learned that the feather belonged to a Northern
Flicker, and the remains were of a California Quail.



Here is the link again: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24031688 AT N08/show/

Many thanks!



Andi Woolley

Sammamish, WA
andiwoolley at yahoo dot com



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