About the Guatemalan Flicker
The Guatemalan flicker is a species of bird in the family Picidae, the woodpeckers. It is found in Middle America from southern Mexico to Nicaragua.
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The Guatemalan flicker is 25.9 to 32.9 cm (10 to 13 in) long and weighs about 115 to 135 g (4.1 to 4.8 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage, differing only on the face. Females have a cinnamon "mustache" and males a bright red one. Adults of both sexes have a cinnamon rufous to rufous-chestnut crown and nape on an otherwise gray face, throat, and neck. Their back has wide black and light brown bars. Their rump and uppertail coverts are white with some black spots on the former and black bars on the latter.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in May · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Chilean FlickerColaptes pitiusThe Chilean flicker is about 30 cm (12 in) long and weighs 100 to 163 g (3.5 to 5.7 oz).
Crimson-mantled WoodpeckerColaptes rivoliiThe crimson-mantled woodpecker is 23 to 26 cm (9.1 to 10 in) long and weighs 85 to 112 g (3.0 to 4.0 oz).
Andean FlickerColaptes rupicolaThe Andean flicker is about 32 cm (13 in) long.
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