Northern Flicker

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae

Genus

Colaptes

Subspecies (9)

• Colaptes auratus auratus

  southeastern USA

• Colaptes auratus cafer

  southern Alaska and British Columbia to northern California

• Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus

  Cuba

• Colaptes auratus collaris

  southwestern USA to northwestern Baja California and western Mexico (Durango)

• Colaptes auratus gundlachi

  Grand Cayman Island

• Colaptes auratus luteus

  central Alaska to southern Labrador, Newfoundland, Montana, and northeastern USA

• Colaptes auratus mexicanus

  central Mexico, from Nayarit and Durango eastward to Veracruz, southward to Oaxaca

• Colaptes auratus nanus

  southwestern USA (Chisos Mountains, Texas) and northeastern Mexico (Coahuila to Tamaulipas, southward to San Luis Potosí)

• Colaptes auratus rufipileus

  formerly Guadalupe Island, Mexico; extinct, last recorded 1906