For the yellow-shafted northern flicker, “you are what you eat” has proven freakishly true. These eastern North American woodpeckers get their name from a thin vein of yellow that runs through ...

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 sight… ...

Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either ov… ...

If there’s one species that changed the American world of birds, it’s the yellow-shafted flicker. As recently as the 1920s, birdwatching was largely done with shotguns rather than binoculars.

Dear Bird Folks, Please look at the image on my phone. I think we have an albino flicker in our yard. –Donna, Orleans, MA. Wow, Donna. That sure is one bright white bird…at least I think it ...

While hearing woodpeckers do their thing can get a little tiresome, the birds are actually great to have around. Here's how ...

Although all the birds are brown and black on top, the subspecies that lives in western North America—the red-shafted flicker—has red feathers on the underside of its wings and tail.

The northern flicker became the state bird of Alabama because it resembled the gray-with-yellow-trim uniforms worn by Alabama soldiers in the Civil War. One of the regional nicknames for the bird ...

Bird of the Month: Common raven Where to find one: Flickers are very fond of ants, and it is quite common to find them on the ground probing the dirt with their long, slightly curved bill to find ...

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 ...

Nick Glover, field ornithologist, Directorate of Public Works Natural and Cultural Resources Management Branch, holds a yellow-shafted northern flicker his team caught in a mist net near Table ...