Hi Jim

I wholeheartedly recommend getting a subscription to "Birds of the World"
($49/year):
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/subscribe

To your case: for Northern Flicker it has a very detailed article on
"Plumages, Molts, and Structure".

Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:01 AM <jimbetz at jimbetz.com> wrote:


> Hi,

>

> I -often- have questions that are not being answered by my useual

> sources

> (eBird, Cornell, Audubon, field guides, etc.). As just one example how do

> I

> answer the question - at what age/in what season do Flickers change from

> juvenile patterns to adult?

>

> When I go to any of the above usually they only have the highest level

> of info (a few pictures, range maps, and recent/historical sightings).

> I guess I'm finding my way into the areas of ornithological info ... ?

> I have posted questions to this group - maybe once or twice a quarter -

> that are along these lines and haven't gotten what I consider "the

> answers I was looking for" ... don't get me wrong, I value this

> community highly - just for different purposes.

>

> Since we live in Skagit County most of my "deeper questions" are about

> the birds that show up here ... in all seasons.

> - Jim

>

> P.S. I had a first ever sighting event this morning. Early on, before

> they flew off to where ever they went to today, there was a group of

> swans (probably all Trumpeters) that had obviously spent the night on a

> bend of the Skagit River! We look down on that large S-curve in the

> Skagit that is East of the Gardner Road Launch Ramp and there they were

> in a 'line' on the slow side of the sand bar. Water does flow thru

> that area but it is not the primary path for the flow - that's on the

> other side of the same bar (just East of where I saw them). I'm seeing

> about 4 or 5 birds "just lifting off and moving" from that location

> right now. Sorry, too far away for a picture.

>

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