One of the most attractive and fascinating birds to visit our feeders is the Northern ... When a flicker lands on the feeder, it gets your immediate attention. These are woodpeckers, but in ...

They heard something that was just out of human range. Then it wasn’t ... it is difficult to tell the Northern flicker and the pileated woodpecker apart. The pileated seems more throaty ...

The candidates are six birds that call the city home all year long: Anna’s hummingbird, black-capped chickadee, Pacific wren, pileated woodpecker, northern flicker, and varied thrush.