Return of Bird of the Week: Andean Flicker
A close cousin to last week’s Campo Flicker, the Andean Flicker is a South American species. The Andean Flicker is restricted to the Andes, as its common name suggests. It’s not a forest bird at all; it scientific name is Colaptes rupicola, where the “rupicola” translates as “rock-loving.” And it’d odd in several ways. It…