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 LC    Gilded Flicker* Id (Atlas):
    Colaptes chrysoides

Description (10)
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Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Malherbe, 1852)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, hot desert. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)
Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 1,100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) [XC621699]
     by Richard E. Webster from Ajo Mountain Drive, Organ Pipe Cactus N.M., Pima County, Arizona, United States (call, song, interaction calls)

 
Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) [XC702992]
     by Bobby Wilcox from Buenos Aires NWR, Pima County, Arizona, United States (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus). Genetically is not significantly divergent from south-western "cafer group" of that species, and treated as conspecific by some authors, but separated to a reasonable extent by habitat preferences, with limited hybridization. Better considered treated as allospecies. Subspecies intergrade clinally.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • brunnescens Anthony, 1895   -  Northern and central Baja California.
  • chrysoides (Malherbe, 1852)   -  Southern Baja California.
  • mearnsi Ridgway, 1911   -  Extreme south-eastern California (Colorado Valley) and southern and central Arizona southern in desert to north-western Mexico (northern Sonora).
  • tenebrosus van Rossem, 1930   -  Northern Sonora to northern Sinaloa.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) - 10 files


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