This time I don't have a photo, only a visual memory, and even if you can steer me even weakly in the good direction, it's helpful as it narrows the search. Let me phrase it as a riddle just for fun:
What's a bird that has the head colors of a white-crowned sparrow, the beak and size of a northern flicker, and flies like a miniature duck?
By the "fly like a miniature duck", I mean with the body immobile in a perfect horizontal ellypse, head pointed forward, and the wings beating at high speed... I don't know how to put it, but definitely not the flight of a sparrow.
What could it be?
What's a bird that has the head colors of a white-crowned sparrow, the beak and size of a northern flicker, and flies like a miniature duck?
By the "fly like a miniature duck", I mean with the body immobile in a perfect horizontal ellypse, head pointed forward, and the wings beating at high speed... I don't know how to put it, but definitely not the flight of a sparrow.
What could it be?