The red-shafted has a grayish head ... all flicker tails look mostly black from above). The crown of the gilded is more extensively brown than in the red-shafted northern, and the back is paler ...

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

The pictures invariably show a Northern flicker on the ground ... They have a gray cap, buff face, and a red bar on the back of the head. They also have a black-barred brown back, black crescent ...

It actually wraps from the back of their head around to the top ... they were lumped into one species, the Northern flicker. Previously the two were known as the red-shafted flicker and the ...

red tuft on the back of the head. Based on that description, experienced birders can easily identify the specimen as a northern flicker. For me, it took a quick consultation with my favorite field ...

We also have about 14 northern flickers who have been trying to ... I saw a faint hint of a red chevron on the back of its head. That made it a cross between a red and a yellow-shafted bird.

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

Maria and Skip, Oakland DEAR MARIA AND SKIP: Your visitor is a female Northern flicker, which is a woodpecker ... But it was brown, and the spot was on its back. What type of spider is it and ...

This large, striking member of the woodpecker family is a foot long, with a bold speckled chest and hard to miss black bib, the northern flicker is the only woodpecker to regularly feed on the ground.

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 ...

It actually wraps from the back of their head around to the top ... they were lumped into one species, the Northern flicker. Previously the two were known as the red-shafted flicker and the ...