Date: 1/5/26 6:52 pm From: Steve Hampton via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Yellow-shafted flicker
Intergrade flickers are quite common here (Port Townsend) in winter--
probably 25% of all birds. I also see them regularly (though maybe 5-10% of
total) in summer as part of the breeding population, feeding young, etc.
Usually those are red-shafted in most features but have a red nape mark.
I've only seen pure Yellow-shafted once or twice in the last 5 years, in
winter.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM Michael Price via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> Hey tweets,
>
> In the early 90s I was part of a breeding-bird inventory in north-central
> BC, near Manson Creek just W of Williston Lake. It's an area where due to
> openings in the boreal forest caused by *very* extensive clear-cutting,
> eastern avifauna were able to penetrate more and more widely into the
> region*, and one result was that we saw a *lot* of intergrading between
> Red- and Yellow-shafted Flickers, between Oregon and Slate-colored Juncos (
> *cismontanus* was the norm), and Red-breasted X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
> hybrids.
>
> *that clear-cutting of the boreal forest and consequent westward
> colonisation resulted in a lot of eastern sparrows extremely rare in the
> 1970s have now become not only regular but increasingly common as wintering
> birds along the mid-Pacific flyway: Swamp Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow,
> White-throated Sparrow are now regular wintering species and in good
> numbers when once upon a time their single—even first-time—occurrence would
> have resulted in dropped tools and unfinished meals.
>
> best, m
>
> Michael Price
> Vancouver BC Canada
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