Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, is a medium-sized bird you can easily find in North America. It is among the few woodpecker species that ...

The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don’t always act like typical woodpeckers. They ...

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy woodpecker goes by cotton-rump, high-hole, yellowhammer and at least 150 other colloquialisms. All these monikers speak to ...

Northern flickers have the most widespread range of any North American woodpecker, found from the northern extent of the treeline up in Alaska and Northern Canada, south into Central America.

Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend much of their time on the ground, using their long, barbed tongues to lap up ants — one of their favourite foods. In fact, these birds play an important role in ...

Flickers are also fiercely territorial and will defend their nest sites from other flickers and woodpeckers. You may also notice northern flickers making lots of noise on metal chimneys, roofs ...

The flicker is a woodpecker, but it has its own habits, ... Northern flicker. Illustration/Mike Jacobs. By Mike Jacobs. September 24, 2022 at 6:26 AM. Share Share this article. Opinion ...

A male yellow-shafted northern flicker woodpecker is seen in a tree on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) ...

The woodpeckers — downy, hairy and red-bellied — inevitably put on a show. For a month now, these three species have been sharing the woods with an overwintering male flicker. It’s the red-bellied, ...

The woodpecker, a male Northern Flicker I later came to learn, started out drumming on the thin metal cap on top of a light pole directly across the street. He then made a visit to my house to try ...

Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized ...