yellow-shafted flicker

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   large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail

   SynonymsColaptes auratusyellowhammer

   Broaderflicker

Questions about yellow-shafted flicker

What does yellow-shafted flicker mean?

yellow-shafted flicker means "large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail".

What is another word for yellow-shafted flicker?

Close synonyms include Colaptes auratus, yellowhammer. 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 yellow-shafted flicker a common word?

yellow-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.