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 ...

The female lays from five to eight eggs, which hatch about 12 days later. Nestlings are ready to leave after about a month. • In Alabama, where the northern flicker is the state bird ...

I returned home the other day to find a male ... the female flicker is presumably enamored of her clangorous courter. A beautiful, conspicuous and charismatic bird, the northern flicker has ...

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker is a common visitor at backyard feeders, but do you know how to distinguish male from female? This video shows a great comparison of the two. Notice that the red on the ...

In the West, we see the red-shafted northern flicker, with reddish-colored feathers on the underside of the wings. The male red-shafted has a red mustache (malar), the female has none. Both male ...

A female northern flicker sits in her nest cavity on Douglas ... and use of nest cavities in (usually) dead trees. Both male and female excavate, but males do most of the work.

The male has a marking referred to as a red mustache that the female lacks ... if you want to put one up. The Northern flicker has been in decline throughout the United States, except in ...

From this column’s headline you already know it’s the yellow-shafted flicker (more properly ... young flickers take on the plumage of the male, not the female as is common in most other ...

One of the largest woodpeckers in Montana is the Northern Flicker ... yellow-shafted male has a black mustache. The yellow-shafted has yellow under the wings and tail. The female red-shafted ...