Facebook friend Melissa Hale posted on my page about her discovery of an unusual feather. "I think I have found a feather from a yellow-shafted flicker," she wrote. "Do we even have these around here?

My yard must be one of the most exciting places for northern flickers. These large, brown woodpeckers don’t do much hunting, hammering on trees and dead wood like most woodpeckers. Instead they go ...

The Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing wood for... Aug 05, 2021 — The Northern Flicker is one of the ...

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 the ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Knock, knock! Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this spring? Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital, conservation and education center, said Tuesday ...

This awesome footage of Pileated Woodpeckers and Northern Flickers was captured in Deerfield by a u local New Hampshire Facebook group member. DEERFIELD, N.H. — This awesome footage of Pileated ...

Foraging with others can reduce prédation risk but may increase competition for resources. Species, sex, or age classes may use different niches to reduce competition for food, which may be enforced ...

Today, Brooklyn Bird Watch features a Heather Wolf photo of the Northern Flicker in Brooklyn Bridge Park. According to the Cornell Lab, uncharacteristic of wood peckers in general, Northern Flickers ...

We have received several messages lately with pictures of this beautiful bird, asking for assistance with identification. The pictures invariably show a Northern flicker on the ground, not the ...

One fine April morning in 1919, an 11-year-old boy named Roger Tory Peterson was exploring a natural area in Jamestown, New York. He happened along what appeared to be a clump of dead feathers stuck ...

It was early October last year when our backyard was visited by a large flock of birds that at first I didn’t recognize. They looked to be a bit larger than robins and were busy gleaning sunflower ...

So far, the duct tape seems to be keeping the flicker away from its destructive front-door molding drilling. Or, perhaps they have chosen other nearby trees to make a nest. These two holes were ...