Lots of field flickers but no field around
With civilization enc roaching and natur al areas availability shrinking, animals either go down extinction alley or adapt. I am glad to register that a family of f i eld flickers has just moved in to an area in urban Foz do Iguaçu already shared by a growing number of bir d species. I have taken pictures of them right on the spot where busy avenues Repu b lica Argentina and Jules Rimet meet . The Field Flicker (Colaptes campestris) is called " pica-pau-pau-do-campo" in Portuguese, "carpintero campestre" in Spanish, "p ic champêtre" in F rench and Ypekû ñu in Guarani - the native language to Jungle Lands that best translate Nature and its phenomena as far as tropical forests goes from the Amazon all the way down to Uruguay, Argentina and the whole of Brazil.