The Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing wood for their food like their relatives, digs for food in ...

Next to the pileated woodpecker, the dove-size Northern flicker is Georgia’s second-largest woodpecker. It’s also one of our most widespread birds, living in urban areas as well as forests.

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 large bird at almost 13 inches in length. It’s the second largest woodpecker in North America, next to the pileated woodpecker.

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.

Think Wild utilizes a simple but effective strategy to mitigate issues with northern flickers - installing flicker nest boxes.

GRAND FORKS – “Northern flicker” is the answer to one of the five most frequently asked questions about birds. The flicker is a misfit in several ways. It is a woodpecker, to begin with, and ...

After we cut down aging trees in our Guilderland yard, a northern flicker tried to build a shelter in the trim of our home.

A snowy morning turns into a backyard drama as woodpeckers, starlings and a flicker compete for space at the feeders, showcasing nature’s beauty and hierarchy.

A woodpecker. 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.