Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) - HBW 7, p. 513
French: Pic chrysoïde
German: Wüstengoldspecht
Spanish: Carpintero de California
Taxonomy: Geopicus (Colaptes) chrysoides Malherbe, 1852, Cape San Lucas, Baja California.
Forms a superspecies with C. auratus. Genetically is not significantly divergent from SW “cafer group” of that species, and treated as conspecific by some authors, but separated to a reasonable extent by habitat preferences, with limited hybridization; considered better treated as allospecies. Races intergrade clinally. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- brunnescens Anthony, 1895 - N & C Baja California.
- chrysoides (Malherbe, 1852) - S Baja California.
- mearnsi Ridgway, 1911 - extreme SE California (Colorado Valley) and S & C Arizona S in desert to NW Mexico (N Sonora).
- tenebrosus van Rossem, 1930 - N Sonora to N Sinaloa.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Female resting atop large Saguaro Locality Arizona, USA (United States) (ssp mearnsi)
Malcolm Mark Swan 14 October 2011 28 weeks ago 47 sec 4
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Perched on ocotillo in our back yard, Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona.
Locality Arizona, USA (United States)
manakin 19 January 2007 3 years ago 3.7 -
single male perched on Saguaro cactus
Locality Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA (United States) (ssp mearnsi)
Mat Gilfedder 1 April 2011 31 weeks ago 3.5
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Long call. Locality Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA (United States)
Scott Olmstead 9 April 2009 2 years ago 4 -
Short call. Locality Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA (United States)
Scott Olmstead 4 May 2009 2 years ago 3
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