Combining beauty, personality and a critical role in the desert ecosystem, a Gila woodpecker is a fascinating bird to attract ...

Other rare bird sightings — like a gilded flicker and a gray hawk — have also been documented in Utah recently.

Scientists also believed the gilded flicker, found in the Sonoran Desert, was part of the same species, but the gilded flicker was recently split off once again as a species of its own.

Yet another bird, the gilded flicker of the Southwest, is also lumped with them. The birds we see here, however, are referred to as “northern flickers.” ...

Thing is, it matches the pictures we looked up of a Gilded Flicker, but a guidebook I found says they only live in the desert. What was he doing in Boulder? I’ll tell you what he was doing.

We’re just a few hours away from tonight’s airing of Episode 6.17 of “The Vampire Diaries,” entitled “A Bird in a Gilded Cage,” and if you’re excited to see a Salvatore family ...

If you want to see a flicker, look on the ground and look soon. Flickers are moving south. The flicker is a species of woodpecker, but no matter. In migration, flickers are ground-loving birds ...