The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don’t always act like typical woodpeckers. They ...

While watching a big bruin black bear amble across a meadow, birds began to materialize and pour into a large lone maple in the field. Flickers! About 75 of them.

Northern flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with black-scalloped plumage that live year-round in Nevada. Their brown plumage is richly patterned with black spots, bars and crescents.

One of the most challenging parts of this job is identifying birds via phone. Some of them are wild. “I think it’s an eagle,” a west Allentown caller claimed last week after sighting a large ...

Northern flickers, a species of woodpecker, ... They like suet, black oil sunflower and nyjer seeds) though they are rarely found on the bird feeder itself, preferring to forage on the ground.

It’s been almost a year since I moved from Northampton County suburbia to a rural Schuylkill County mountaintop. Although the change was driven by family considerations, being surrounded by n… ...

I recognized it immediately -- a Northern flicker, the most unusual of Georgia’s seven year-round woodpecker species. For one thing, the Northern flicker's coloration is brown rather than black ...

The northern flicker has a gray-brown back crossed horizontally by black bars. The two forms of the bird, once considered two separate species, are the red-shafted flicker of the west and the ...

Here is a quote perfectly describing the northern flicker from his book "A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard." "The flicker is one of the few migratory woodpeckers. It can be recognized by the black ...

Northern flickers inhabit most of North America and there are eight existing and one extinct ... buff face, and a red bar on the back of the head. They also have a black-barred brown back, ...

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 ...

Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized ...