Bird (II), for those interested, is a Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus ).    From Wordnik.com.  [Previously Kinetic Art | clusterflock] Reference

Your hapless bird is likely Colaptes auratus auratus the yellow-shafted race of the Northern Flicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whites Ferry] Reference

Colaptes auratus 3-4; Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus.    From Wordnik.com.  [10,000 Birds] Reference

The red-shafted lark-woodpecker is Colaptes mexicanus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

Note on the habits of the Pampas Woodpecker: Colaptes campestris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference

Hence this Colaptes in all the essential parts of its structure is a woodpecker.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure] Reference

(Sphyrapucys spp.), and flickers (Colaptes spp.) belong to an interesting and well-known group of birds in the family Picidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week] Reference

One example of this is the name of the western American redshafted flicker, which for more than a century bore the name Colaptes cafer, Cafer means ` of Africa, 'but the bird is not "of Africa" at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

The name of this bird was recently changed, but not because it didn't come from Africa; it was because research showed it to be only a color phase of Colaptes auratus, whose name had been applied first and so had priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

On the plains of La Plata, where hardly a tree grows, there is a woodpecker (Colaptes campestris) which has two toes before and two behind, a long pointed tongue, pointed tail-feathers, sufficiently stiff to support the bird in a vertical position on a post, but not so stiff as in the typical woodpeckers, and a straight strong beak.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure] Reference

Flicker, Northern Colaptes auratus 56, 218.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

High-hole, or flicker (Colaptes auratus luteus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Sunshine] Reference

The forests of this ecoregion also have species that have disappeared at other points in Cuba such Cuban pygmy owl (Glaucidium siju), sijú cotunto (Gymnoglaux lawrenci), garzas reales, las cotorras (Aratinga eups and Amazona leucocephala), zunzuncito, Blue-headed pigeon (Starnoenas cyanocephala), Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) and Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), or passeriforms like the chillina (Terestristis fernandinae), cabrero (Spindalis zena), chichinguaco (Quiscalus niger), mayito de ciénaga (Agelaius phoeniseus) and the tomeguines de la tierra (Tiaris olivacea) and pinar (Tiaris canora), which are also currently extremely vulnerable as a result of constant transformations occurring in their habitats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban wetlands] Reference