TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Northern Flicker "Interaction" Northern Flicker- Colaptes auratus Northern Flicker- Colaptes auratus, Order PICIFORMES - Family PICIDAE. This pair was weaving and bobbing together. "The Northern Flicker is one of the few North American woodpeckers that is strongly migratory. A common ant-eating woodpecker of open areas, the Northern Flicker has two color forms found in different regions. Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its favorite food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants." This photo was taken on Miami University's campus near Boyd Hall. (Photo: April 14, 2004, Canon 10D, EF 300mm f/4.0L IS USM, 1.4x teleconverter EF ll lens ) For more species info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Flicker_dtl.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.