Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, is a medium-sized bird you can easily ...

For the yellow-shafted northern flicker, “you are what you eat” has proven freakishly true. These eastern North American woodpeckers get their name from a thin vein of yellow that runs through ...

Previously the two were known as the red-shafted flicker and the yellow-shafted flicker. The red-shafted is the bird more commonly seen, while the yellow-shafted is seen in small numbers during ...

The gilded flicker closely resembles the ... spaced black bars (but note that interior western red-shafted are paler backed than northwestern birds). The black crescent on the chest of the golden ...

With autumn already halfway through, you may have noticed many species of birds returning to local gardens. I shot this photo of a northern flicker, specifically a red-shafted flicker, from my ...

Although all the birds are brown and black on top, the subspecies that lives in western North America—the red-shafted flicker—has red feathers on the underside of its wings and tail.

The birds don’t actually spear the small ... Generally called the “common flicker,” the species also includes the red-shafted flicker of the West, which interbreeds with the yellow-shafted ...

Once upon a time, there was a bird with a long, sturdy bill who, in spring, could be found annoying a homeowner with loud ...

“The red-shafted flicker is so well known that any detailed ... This is a widespread and striking bird that everyone was once aware of — not just students of birds, but everyday people.

Previously the two were known as the red-shafted flicker and the yellow-shafted flicker. The red-shafted is the bird more commonly seen, while the yellow-shafted is seen in small numbers during ...