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Colaptes auratus
My dad brother and sister found this out along a creek out back. Took the photo on our kitchen table. It has remarkable black stripes on the upper part of the feather, with a softer, downy-like material on the bottom half.
Spotted on Apr 14, 2014
Submitted on Apr 14, 2014
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11 Comments
thanks kd!
thanks for confirmation, ashley!
Here's a pile of northern flicker feathers. This one you have here fits right in: http://goingtoseedinzone5.files.wordpres...
oops wrong link: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/245...
thank you jamie and cindy. while i'm at it, i have another spotting. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/245... those feathers were found in the same pile as this one. Same bird? or not? Anyone's imput? thanks...
ok i think i found something look at the very back tail feathers of this red bellied woodpecker see if any of those were like what you have here.
http://b50ym1n8ryw31pmkr4671ui1c64.wpeng...
Here is a wonderful references for bird feathers: http://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/
possibly strix varia?
it also might be a woodpecker but their feathers a kind of stiff and are generally small.
thank you for your imput jamie. I will mark it as 'owl feather?' and see if anyone else has an opinion
this could be a down feather of an owl, like from an area on the stomach. I've never seen anything like it