Sicamous landscape photographer Joy Daniels captures the changing light and moods over Shuswap Lake at twilight and into the ...

A keystone species is one that plays a disproportionately large role in maintaining the structure and biodiversity of its ...

A woodpecker. The woodpecker, a male Northern Flicker I later came to learn, started out drumming on the thin metal cap on top of a light pole directly across the street. He then made a visit to ...

But for Bradley and Cherylee Gosse, the persistent pecking of a Northern Flicker has them losing sleep. “Luckily enough we’re up already for work,” Gosse said. “But on the weekends ...

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 ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America ...

For a month now, these three species have been sharing the woods with an overwintering male flicker. It’s the red-bellied, though, that’s the most aggressive even though the flicker is a larger bird ...

These two holes were intended as an entry and exit for a kind of northern flicker condo in faux wood resin material, created by persistent stealth pecking after the writer took down to old ...

The northern lights may also be visible low on ... a process that produces a stunning display of rays, spirals and flickers that have fascinated humans for millennia. Whether hues of green ...

The northern flicker had entered the stand through the hatch in the floor and could not find its way out. Peterlin climbed into the stand, opened a window and was able to set the bird free.

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 ...