What kind of bird was this

[mcpiper]

Found this bird carcass under the wife's hummingbird feeder at our cottage near Tobermory Ontario. Any of you bird experts know what manner of beast this was? Seems a decent sized bird with a long bill? Couldn't decide which forum to post in so apologies if wrong place.

 

[MRP]

Found this bird carcass under the wife's hummingbird feeder at our cottage near Tobermory Ontario. Any of you bird experts know what manner of beast this was? Seems a decent sized bird with a long bill? Couldn't decide which forum to post in so apologies if wrong place.
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I'm thinking Audubon's warbler.

 

[srk]

A dead one.
Lol!

 

[Londonshooter]

Found this bird carcass under the wife's hummingbird feeder at our cottage near Tobermory Ontario. Any of you bird experts know what manner of beast this was? Seems a decent sized bird with a long bill? Couldn't decide which forum to post in so apologies if wrong place.
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Flicker

 

[hoytcanon]

Northern Flicker

 

[KCL]

My first thought was flicker as well.

 

[Beeron]

Yellow shafted Northern Flicker.

The super long tongue is a key feature of the woodpeckers (its barbed too).

The feathers are a dead giveaway, especially the tail rectrices which are also woodpeckery.

 

[mcpiper]

Many thanks folks! Yellow shafted Northern Flicker, never heard of or seen such a thing before.

 

[Paul_T]

Tons of them here in the Interior of BC. Northern Flickers are a ground feeding woodpecker. They fly through the trees like bloody lawn darts.

 

[hoytcanon]

Many thanks folks! Yellow shafted Northern Flicker, never heard of or seen such a thing before.
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They are very common in Ontario.

 

[bunny]

It’s not dead, just pinning for the fiords.

 

[wjklassen]

There's also a less common red-shafted flicker variation. As Paul_T mentions above, you'll sometimes see them feeding in anthills. They nest in cavities in both lodgepole pine and aspen here in the Yukon.

 

[looch]

With that much yellow my first thought was meadowlark.

 

[Beeron]

The red and yellow also breed with eachother over a wide area of co-occurrence producing intergrades of orange and quite a variety of shades between.

The BC interior, for example, probably has more intergrades than true reds or yellows.

 

[4star60]

They like banging on tin(chimneys, roofs) or skylights. They also like to drill holes in architectural foam covered in stucco on homes in the interior of BC. They cause all sorts of damage.

 

[Big Bad]

If the remains were in a neat circle, which I guess not, it would mean that the bird had been killed by a sharp shinned hawk. That looks more like a random slaughter by a house cat or other bird eating mammal.

 

[geologist]

African or European flicker?

Aaaiiiggghhhheeeeeee!.............................

 

[Beeron]

If the remains were in a neat circle, which I guess not, it would mean that the bird had been killed by a sharp shinned hawk. That looks more like a random slaughter by a house cat or other bird eating mammal.

As has been said, they whip through the woods like lawn darts and i have found far too many of them on the ground below large windows.

 

[Big Bad]

In my birding days, meaning I had binoculars, I once watched a big pileated woodpecker ripping open a carpenter ant nest high up on a tree while a flicker that was clinging to the bark just below it was bagging the ants that were boiling out, much to the pileated's annoyance I'm sure, there was a lot of squawking going on.