What Kind of Bird is This?

fyrffytr1

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curious kat

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Good shot fyrffytr1....ours look a little different here.
 

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fyrffytr1

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Thanks for the quick ID. I haven't seen this bird since I took its picture.
 

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Species up North here.

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texasred777

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Kinda looks like a woodpecker. Are they a type of woodpecker? Great pictures!
 

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Those eat my grapes and the berry's on a Virginia creeper growing on the porch. They also peck on the cottonwood tree and make a few distinct calls. They don't like me trying to get their picture either.
 

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Those Flickers can do quite some damage to your house and out-buildings. Early in the year just before Spring a pair will seek out a new nesting site and I have had to discourage them from trying to put a hole in the upper eaves of the house. I have even had them ''Rat-a Tat'' on the metal stove flue.
 

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It's a member of the woodpecker family. There are two types, we called them yellowhammer and redhammer. However, many of the names I was taught for things do not correspond to the scientific names. The correct terms are yellow-shafted flicker and red-shafted flicker, due to the coloring of their tail feathers, underwing feathers, and the feather shaft. They are significant to the Native American Church, and you see their feathers used in fans and depicted in art work. I have heard some people call them fire birds and some people believe they are medicine birds. There's a popular picture of Comanche Quanah Parker out there and on his right shoulder is a feather adornment. Those are flicker feathers. I have seen what was claimed to be that actual thing and it was redhammer feathers. The pic looks more like yellowhammer though.
 

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Here's the type we have here, they eat the ants.

FSCN7909.JPG ...according to RIGNN they're the red shafted ones.

RIGNN...incase you see this, which picture of Quanah do you mean?
 

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I'm not sure if I've seen these birds before. Back in Texas we had the ol' Redheaded woodpeckers. (I've been referred to as a 'Redheaded woodpecker' many times when growing up.) We had other woodpeckers; but the redheads were the most visible.
 

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