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The gilded flicker is a desert-dwelling species from the American southwest. It resembles a cross between the yellow-shafted and red-shafted races of the northern flicker -- a red-shaft head pattern but yellow coloration in the wings and tail, and smaller than the northern flicker. These birds were photographed near Tucson and Green Valley, Arizona. One of the males may be a guilded X 'red-shafted' hybrid: the undertail color is somewhat orange and the belly spots are more rounded than the typically more crescent-shaped marks on guilded flickers |
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