Yes, the yellow-shafted flicker is a solid citizen of the state and a common nester throughout. It’s also one of the few woodpeckers that has little interest in the sunflower seeds and suet at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next to the pileated woodpecker, the dove-size Northern flicker is Georgia’s second-largest woodpecker. It’s also one of our most widespread birds, living in urban areas as well as forests.

It’s the common flicker — a large woodpecker whose population is great in the Lehigh Valley region although many casual naturalists are puzzled by the appearance of the large, brown bird just ...

Flickers are recognizably woodpeckers in their plumage, as well. Though flickers are colored differently than most woodpeckers, they do display the white rump patch that is common to the tribe.

Today, however, I’d like to shine a light on three of our less commonly encountered woodpeckers, each one with its own surprises: the sapsucker, the flicker and the mighty pileated woodpecker.

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.

I’d like to shine a light on three of our less commonly encountered woodpeckers, each one with its own surprises: the sapsucker, the flicker and the mighty pileated woodpecker.

Flickers are the only woodpeckers in North America that commonly feed on the ground, searching for ants, beetles, crickets and other insects. About 75 percent of its food is animal matter.