Gilded Flicker
Colaptes chrysoides
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,767
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of the Baja California peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) found within the same region, which has red underwings.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gilded flicker”.