red-shafted flicker

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   western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail

   SynonymsColaptes caper collaris

   Broaderflicker

Questions about red-shafted flicker

What does red-shafted flicker mean?

red-shafted flicker means "western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail".

What is another word for red-shafted flicker?

Close synonyms include Colaptes caper collaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red-shafted flicker a common word?

red-shafted flicker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.