๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Northern Flicker live?

Colaptes auratus has 15,018,776 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1802 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Northern Flicker
Northern Flicker โ€” Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPiciformesPicidaeColaptes

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 12,473,700
Canada 2,508,561
Mexico 25,900
Cayman Islands 5,056
Cuba 4,495
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 647
Guatemala 176
Bermuda 87
Honduras 67
El Salvador 21
Nicaragua 13
Portugal 11
United Kingdom 5
ZZ 5
Bahamas 2
Colombia 2
Greece 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.