Birds of Petrified Forest Ornament: Red-Shafted Flicker

Petrified Forest National Park is situated in a high-desert grassland, preserving 50,260 acres of wilderness.  Many forms of wildlife make their homes in the Petrified Forest, including hundreds of species of resident and migratory birds. 

This series of ornaments celebrates some of the most commonly spotted birds in the park.

This colorful woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) is a subspecies of the Northern Flicker. 

Curved bills make for easy work digging for ants and beetles from tree bark.  Males of the species wear a red mustache and are most distinctive when their wings are spread out in flight.