What is "gilded flicker"

n. southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck [syn: Colaptes chrysoides]

The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of ) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico including all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Golden yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker found within the same region, which have red underwings.