Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, is a medium-sized bird you can easily find in North America. It is among the few woodpecker species that ...

“I have a small bird book and as close as I can tell it is a yellow-shafted flicker.”“I just started birdfeeding when ... Ant-eating flicker is Pa.’s most common woodpecker Share this ...

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 flicker, in fact, is a virtual ant-eating machine. It consumes ants more than any other species of birds. Biologists have found as many as 5,000 ants in a flicker’s stomach.

While many other woodpeckers look for insect prey within rotting wood, or pluck it from the surface of the bark, flickers specialize in pursuing ants, often reaching into their tunnels with their ...

While many other woodpeckers look for insect prey within rotting wood, or pluck it from the surface of the bark, flickers specialize in pursuing ants, often reaching into their tunnels with their ...

One of the four species of woodpeckers that puts in a regular appearance in my ... from their tunnels in the flower garden.It’s the common flicker — a large woodpecker whose ...

My co-worker asked me the other day about a funny-looking bird with a large beak he saw sitting on his lawn a couple of weeks ago. When the bird flew, ...

For unfamiliarity among common birds in our area, the northern flicker must surely take the prize. Flickers are abundant at this time of year, but judging from the questions I get about birds ...

One of the largest woodpeckers in Montana is the northern flicker. It is the most common woodpecker in the state. The “red-shafted” form is the western flicker. The “yellow-shafted” form ...

The common flicker is an uncommon woodpecker. I found a bright yellow feather in the woods the other day. At first I thought it w as from a molting goldfinch, but realized it was too big. I ...