For one thing, the Northern flicker's coloration is brown ... and it took off suddenly with the bounding, undulating flight characteristic of woodpeckers in general. As I followed it with my ...

Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don ... and females have yellow shafts on their flight and tail feathers. With the “red-shafted” northern flicker, a bird of the western 40% of the ...

Unlike other woodpeckers, there is very little difference between the male and female northern flicker. This article will guide you through the main differences between a male and female northern ...

Northern flickers are blue jay-sized woodpeckers with brown backs ... and the male has a black mustache. The flicker is easy to recognize in flight with its deeply undulating, roller-coaster ...

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 ...

A northern flicker, a common woodpecker in these parts, pecked this hole stealthily in the molding alongside their front door, without the Grondahls noticing it. GUILDERLAND — Hell hath no ...

My yard must be one of the most exciting places for northern flickers. These large, brown woodpeckers don’t ... to the American Bird Conservancy, one flicker's stomach was found to contain ...

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 ...

Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this ... Northern flickers are a large species of woodpecker native to Central Oregon. They are drawn to buildings because the wood used ...