ML185368471
Northern/Gilded Flicker Colaptes auratus/chrysoides
Contributor
Ryan Terrill Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Chiriaco Summit
Riverside, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
This bird flew over me and I saw that it had all yellow shafts to the remiges. I was going to enter it as NOFL/GIFL, but then I later found it perched up on a palm tree. The combination of gray face, brownish crown, yellow remex rachi, and narrow bands on the back made me think it's a GIFL. Now looking at my photos, I see it has a gray nape and a brown malar -- which I'm not sure if is the range for GIFL, so I'm again thinking it may be a hybrid YSFL x RSFL, or maybe NOFL x GIFL. I'm not sure how one would tell the two apart from these characteristics.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 27961/44737601 sec
- Dimensions
- 2819 pixels x 1880 pixels
- Original file size
- 1000.07 KB