The red-shafted northern flicker is common in New Mexico, especially as springtime nears. We’ve had many reported sightings in the last couple of weeks. Northern Flickers are found throughout ...

Red-shafted or yellow-shafted refers to the color of the undersides of wing and tail feathers. The two forms hybridize extensively in the area between their two ranges.

At first researchers thought the birds were somehow interbreeding with the red-shafted northern flicker, which is lives in the West. Yet some of the oddly red birds were thousands of miles away ...

Red-shafted flicker are more common, while yellow-shafted flickers can be seen while migrating. ... When either bird flies, the red or yellow shafts of its wings and tail are an easy-to-see flash ...

The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Skip to main content. You have permission to edit this article. ...

The red-shafted flicker has pinkish red under its wings and on its feather shafts, but its head has a brown crown and grayish face with a red whisker or malar stripe, but no red bar. When the two ...

Birds of East Vancouver: Red-shafted flicker. by Stephen Hui on November 17th, 2014 at 10:49 AM. 1 of 1 2 of 1. With autumn already halfway through, you may have noticed many species of birds ...

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 ...

“I have a small bird book and as close as I can tell it is a yellow-shafted flicker.”“I just started birdfeeding when we moved from town last fall but I don’t recall ever […] Skip to content ...

One red-shafted bird’s bill is twice as long as it should be and is curved. The top part of its bill is about an inch longer than the bottom part, making it very hard for it to eat from the suet ...