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The Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing wood for their food like their relatives, digs for food in ...

The northern flicker is an unusual woodpecker that delights us while it spends the winter in much of South Texas, from San Antonio to Houston. One might assume the bird, which is among the largest ...

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 ...

Northern flickers can be mesmerizing. Showy and sometimes loud during courtship, the birds also boast an array of eye-catching colors.

Northern flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with black-scalloped plumage that live year-round in Nevada. Their brown plumage is richly patterned with black spots, bars and crescents.

Here is a quote perfectly describing the northern flicker from his book "A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard." "The flicker is one of the few migratory woodpeckers. It can be recognized by the black ...

The flicker, in fact, is a virtual ant-eating machine. It consumes ants more than any other species of birds. Biologists have found as many as 5,000 ants in a flicker’s stomach.

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 ...

One of the most attractive and fascinating birds to visit our feeders is the Northern flicker. They’re big and handsomely marked. When a flicker lands on the feeder, it gets your immediate ...

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, ...