I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or…
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Quotation by Pete Hamill
California Thrasher: Have you seen this bird?
California Thrasher
The California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) is a large thrasher found primarily in chaparral habitat in California and Baja California.
Similar to the Crissal and Le Conte’s Thrashers in habit, the California Thrasher is the only species of Toxostoma throughout most of its limited range.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 10 inches
• Long, decurved bill
• Pale supercilium
• Dark eye
• Very dark cheek
• Pale throat
• Dark brown plumage
• Belly is paler brown
• Long dark tail
• Dark legs
• Sexes similar
Similar species:
The California Thrasher is quite similar to Crissal and Le Conte’s Thrashers. It has a paler supercilium, darker cheeks and less rusty undertail coverts than the Crissal. Le Conte’s is paler overall and lacks the pale supercilium and dark cheeks. The range of the California does not overlap much with the other species. Other thrashers have spotted underparts and pale eyes.
Like most thrashers, it rarely flies in the open, preferring to keep hidden in dense brush. Therefore, while it is common throughout much of its range, it is rarely seen.
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings…
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
A Germaine Greer quotation
Gilded Flicker: Have you seen this bird?
Gilded Flicker
The Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. This includes all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region.
Golden yellow underwings distinguish the Gilded Flicker from the Northern Flicker found within the same region, which have red underwings.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 10 inches
• Large woodpecker
• Pale brown cap and nape
• Pale gray face, chin, and throat
• Pale brown back and wings barred with black
• Black crescent on upper breast
• Beige breast and belly spotted heavily with black
• White rump (obvious in flight)
• Tail dark above
• Tail and underwings are entirely yellow below, and retricies and primaries have yellow shafts
Adult male:
• Red whisker
Similar species:
Could only be confused with other flickers. The Gilded Flicker has similar wing patterning to Yellow-shafted Flicker, but lacks the red at the rear of the head, has a pale brown cap and pale gray face, a paler brown back, and the male sports a red rather than black whisker. Similarly it differs from Red-shafted Flicker by its paler overall coloration and its yellow underwings and undertail.
The Gilded Flicker most frequently builds its nest hole in a majestic saguaro cactus.
Northern Flickers, on the other hand, nest in riparian trees and very rarely inhabit saguaros.
Gilded Flickers occasionally hybridize with Northern Flickers in the narrow zones where their range and habitat overlap.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
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