Colaptes chrysoides ORDER: PICIFORMES FAMILY: PICIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology
A large and common woodpecker of the saguaro cactus forests of the Sonoran Desert, the Gilded Flicker has the gray face and red mustache of the "red-shafted" form of the Northern Flicker, but the yellow wings of the "yellow-shafted" form.
Call a long series of loud "wik-wik-wik" notes. Also a softer "wik-a-wik-a-wik-a," and a strong single-note "peah."