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Definition of Gilded flicker
1. Noun. Southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilded Flicker
Literary usage of Gilded flicker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Range.- -Northern Lower California. This is a slightly smaller and darker variety
of the gilded flicker. 415. ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"gilded flicker. In general similar to collaris, but back of neck without red,
... The gilded flicker is largely a bird of the giant cactus belt, ..."
3. Arizona, the Wonderland: The History of Its Ancient Cliff and Cave Dwellings by George Wharton James (1917)
"The gilded flicker ... and other species which utilize the holes bored by the
gilded flicker and Gila woodpecker are the Arizona crested flycatcher (seldom ..."
4. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"This is a much darker variety of the Red-shafted Flicker, but its nesting habits
or eggs do not differ in any way. 414. gilded flicker. ..."
5. Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument and the Neighboring Region by Harry Schelwald Swarth, United States National Park Service (1920)
"The gilded flicker will probably be recognized at sight by anyone at all familiar
with ... From the eastern yellow-shafted flicker the gilded flicker may be ..."
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