If it's a Flicker, then it will likely remain in the area, and I'll no doubt see it again. If it's not, then I likely won't. I walk this route 365 days of the year. Of course, I'll also still welcome an image of a similar Northern Flicker, as mentioned before.
Thanks all.
On Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 4:35:18 PM UTC-7 David Suddjian wrote:
CoBirders,Unless there is something of substance to add or a point that has not already been made, I recommend we please now end this CoBirds thread. The eBird reviewer can evaluate the report for the eBird public record, and the observer can do what he likes with it as far as his personal records are concerned.Thanks,David SuddjianCoBirds list moderatorLittleton, COOn Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM 'Woodcreeper29' via Colorado Birds <cob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:Submit it to the records committee. Colorado will still have no accepted record of BBWO!--Steve LarsonSent from my iPhoneOn Dec 6, 2025, at 4:15 PM, Ron W <ourwil...@gmail.com> wrote:No one in Flicker Camp has shown me an example image of the species with a uniform dark back from tail to head. You lightened the photo and it still doesn't look like one. The bird was smaller than a Northern Flicker, and black. the head still looks black even with you lightening it. Furthermore, the underside of the bird is dusty white. The image you linked to is a male Black-backed, which has distinctive barring yes, but the female's can be nearly absent from this angle and there are images showing this.If this is so easily a Northern Flicker then we would have seen a link to one, similarly in full sun, from behind, looking just like this bird. Show me that bird and I'll consider changing my mind.Ron--On Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 3:49:40 PM UTC-7 Tony Leukering wrote:All:The bird in question is certainly a Northern Flicker and, perhaps, identifiable as a Red-shafted Flicker. I lightened a screen grab of one of the photos and, with no other alterations, present it below. The upperparts are brownish, the nape and crown are noticeably grayer, the sides are white with dark spotting, and the whitish rump contrasts strongly with the dark tail.As can be seen on the bird here, Black-backed Woodpeckers entirely lack white on the upper side of the body (excluding tail), so that white rump rules that species out. Additionally, the extensively white side to the bird is not a feature of Black-backed, which has the sides so heavily barred (see here) that in relatively poor views (such as on your bird), the birds look dark-sided (see here).In my extensive birding experience in Michigan, New York, California, and Montana, I've seen many, many Black-backed Woodpeckers, so I immediately recognized the subject of the checklist's photos as not a Black-backed. I've also seen 10s of 1000s of Northern Flickers, and your bird struck me immediately as one.You're welcome to reject my advice (as you have that of others), as it's no skin off my back.Sincerely,Tony LeukeringDenverOn Friday, December 5, 2025 at 10:53:03 AM UTC-7 Ron W wrote:Hello all, as my field report states :
Roughly 9" with a short tail. In full sunlight, the bird shows no markings on its all dark back. Similarly the head is also all dark, with a possible dark red semicircle below the eye. I observed this bird from roughly 15' for around 2 minutes (equipped with only a cell phone). In that time woodpecker made no vocalizations."
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