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Definition of Red-shafted flicker
1. Noun. Western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-shafted Flicker
Literary usage of Red-shafted flicker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... of the Cactus Wren—The Crissal Thrasher's Nest— Western Red-Tailed Hawk—The
Red-Shafted Flicker—Nests in the Giant Cactus—The Crows at the Papago Tanks, ..."
2. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"The red-shafted flicker has red cheek patches instead of black, and omits the
red collar altogether. His breast is a little grayer, and the wing and tail ..."
3. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"birds on December 29, 1889, of red-shafted flicker, a fine male of which I skinned
and preserved. Saw several others on April 17,1895, and have frequently ..."
4. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"birds on December 29, 1889, of red-shafted flicker, a fine male of which I skinned
and preserved. Saw several others on April 17, 1895, and have frequently ..."
5. Western Birds by Harriet Williams Myers (1922)
"Red-Shafted Flicker: Colaptes cafer collar is. FAMILY—WOODPECKERS. THE Red-shafted
Flicker is a common bird on the Pacific Coast and ranges as far east as ..."
6. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"red-shafted flicker. Colaptes cafer collaris. Range. ... This is a much darker
variety of the red-shafted flicker, but its nesting habits or eggs do not ..."
7. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"The red-shafted flicker inhabits that part nt North America westward from the
... For the investigation of the food of the red-shafted flicker 183 stomachs ..."
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