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 ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus Central ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Knock, knock! Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this spring? Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital, conservation and education center, said Tuesday ...

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 Flickers ...

It was early October last year when our backyard was visited by a large flock of birds that at first I didn’t recognize. They looked to be a bit larger than robins and were busy gleaning sunflower ...

My yard must be one of the most exciting places for northern flickers. These large, brown woodpeckers don’t do much hunting, hammering on trees and dead wood like most woodpeckers. Instead they go ...

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, and it ...

Clinging to tree bark, the Northern Flicker — with its cryptic brownish back with black horizontal stripes — can be hard to spot. Fix binoculars on the robin-sized body of this species and a stunning ...

The obvious place to look for woodpeckers in Iowa is, well, the woods. Or at least a tree or group of trees. Unless, that is, you’re looking for the anomaly among the state’s seven species of ...

Northern flickers are confounding birds. Three of them showed up on my lawn early in August. I hadn’t seen flickers since early spring, when northbound migrants gathered on the lawn at our place west ...