March 22, 2003
Photo Gallery of Wing Island Birds - Archives
Yellow-shafted Flicker
| This Yellow-shafted Flicker is identified as a male by the thick, black sub-moustachial stripe which females lack. Flickers are often seen on the ground digging their long bills into ant hills. Flocks of migrant flickers return to the cape during the month of March, if they haven't wintered here. They use nesting cavities in dead trees of soft wood, making their eggs or nestlings susceptible to raccoons. The male flicker's incessant drumming in spring often attracts the same mate year after year. |