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| This was the first time we saw a Northern Flicker, and as you can tell by the yellow wings, this is a Yellow-shafted. |
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| While it's not where you wold think a woodpecker would be, Northern Flickers' diets consist largely of ants and beetles, so they are often on the ground. |
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| There's a third subspecies of Northern Flicker, being the guatamalen Northern Flicker. It kind of looks like it's a subspecies of Red-shafted Northern Flicker. |
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| In the east, you have Yellow-shafted Northern Flickers, and in the west, you have Red-shafted. |
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| Two Northern flickers |
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| Male Yellow-shafted Northern Flickers have a black mustache stripe, while females don't. |
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| Red-breasted mergansers |
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| American Tree Sparrows, like other songbirds, sync up the hatching of their chicks, despite the female laying her 4-6 eggs over multiple days. |
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| American Tree Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow |
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| The body shape of grackles looks like you took a blackbird and stretched them a bit. |
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| Northern Cardinal |