[Tweeters] yellow shafted hybrid flicker

[Dennis Rockwell]

[Tweeters] yellow shafted hybrid flickerYes, so what you have there is not a hybrid, but an intergrade.

Dennis Rockwell   Kennewick, WA  denrockwell at surfbest.net                                                    
                                               
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guttman, Burt 
  To: jbroadus at seanet.com ; tweeters at u.washington.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:54 PM
  Subject: RE: [Tweeters] yellow shafted hybrid flicker


  Clarice Clark wrote, "I got good looks at the yellow shafted flicker at my suet feeder here in Puyallup.  He has bright yellow shafts, and undertail,  alright, but his moustache is red and there is a small red patch of red on his nape."  Yeah, hybrid.  Got some genes from here and some from there.  Good example of why the two extremes aren't good species.

  Burt Guttman
  The Evergreen State College
  Olympia, WA 98505      guttmanb at evergreen.edu
  Home:  7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503



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