Larger woodpecker with a tan crown, a gray face, a black oval-shaped bib, and black spots on the belly. Males have a red mustache stripe.
Barred black and tan above and spotted below. Females have a tan crown and gray cheek and throat.
Larger woodpecker with an oval-shaped black bib that is often larger than the bib on Northern Flickers.
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A fairly large, stout-bodied woodpecker with a long, pointed bill that curves slightly downward.
Larger than a Gila Woodpecker, slightly smaller than a Northern Flicker.
between robin and crowOf the four Gilded Flicker subspecies, only mearnsi reaches the United States, where it is resident from central Arizona to southeastern California and south into Mexico. It is more lightly barred than other subspecies. Two subspecies (chrysoides and brunnescens) are found only in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, while tenebrosus is found only in northwestern Mexico.
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