Female northern flickers feature a black U-shaped bib on their breast, just like the males. Their chest and belly are spotted with black dots, and their wings are banded with black markings.

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 ...

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy woodpecker goes by cotton-rump, high-hole, yellowhammer and at least 150 other colloquialisms. All these monikers speak to ...

Northern flickers are a great bird to get to know. I really feel like we have too many ants so I am always more than happy that flickers are here to help balance out the numbers.

Northern flickers rarely nest around here; over the years, there has been one recorded nest in the Eaglecrest area. But we regularly get visits from them in winter, ...

Northern Flicker eating SuperSuet in the Log Suet Cylinder Feeder. Fun fact: most woodpecker's tongues are 2 to 3 times longer than their beaks, and the base of this retractable tongue folds ...

It is important to keep in mind that Northern Flickers are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, so it is illegal to harm them, destroy or move their nests.

A male yellow-shafted northern flicker woodpecker is seen in a tree on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) ...