Subject: [Tweeters] red-naped flickers
Date: Nov 7 12:19:07 2008
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


Hi, tweets.

After reading about the Montlake Fill flicker, I wanted to point out
that the red nape mark characteristic of yellow-shafted flickers is
now widespread in populations of red-shafted, including Washington
breeding birds. Not all of them, by any means, but some of them. This
I know from examination of many specimens in the Burke and Slater
museums (flickers are very commonly salvaged), as well as the red-
naped flickers I see in my yard.

So that mark alone is not necessarily a sign that you have a bird
from the population of intermediates along the line where yellow-
shafted and red-shafted birds meet. It is fine to look closely at
flickers, though, as the intermediacy comes in many forms.

Dennis
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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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