Hi Walter-
One appeared at Scottsbluff, NE in march-April 2 years in a row, prob the
same bird. The yellow type is apparently a very rare form.
Photos are at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEBirds/photos/album/1929404073/pic/230069167/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc
Ross
Ross Silcock
P.O. Box 57
Tabor, IA 51653
New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours
http://www.rosssilcock.com
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From: Walter Stephenson
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 6:24 PM
To: IA-BIRD
Subject: [ia-bird] Cedar Rapids: Yellow color morph of Downy Woodpecker?
About 4:30 Friday afternoon, I observed what appeared to be a yellow morph
of a Downy Woodpecker. The bird was the size and had all the markings of
a Downy, except: a yellow mark where a juvenal's red crown would be, the
red patch on the back of the head (male) was yellow, and the distinctive
white streak on the back was yellow. The yellow patches were bright
yellow, very distinctive. Additionall, their may have been a yellow wash
on the belly and the sides of the tail. Does anyone know of a morph of
this type for Downy?
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