Gilded Flicker
Colaptes chrysoides (Malherbe, 1852)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Gilded Flicker, Colaptes chrysoides, is a woodpecker that breeds in south-west USA and north-west Mexico. It is found in the Sonoran, Yuma and eastern Colorado Desert regions, including most of the Baja California peninsula. Yellow underwings set it apart from the northern flicker in the same area, which has red underwings. It nests mainly in saguaro cacti, usually placing the cavity high up, and may also use desert dry washes with Frémont's cottonwood or willows. Four subspecies are recognised.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: sw USA and nw Mexico
