Facebook friend Melissa Hale posted on my page about her discovery of an unusual feather. "I think I have found a feather from a yellow-shafted flicker," she wrote. "Do we even have these around here?

The flicker is both a common and conspicuous species here, but it remains a bird of mystery. Only one species draws brings more telephone calls and emails, and that is the bald eagle. The eagle brings ...

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, plus Central ...

This is the time in September when the coming of autumn reaches out to us. On a walk now, we'll see ripe apples, goldenrods and asters that have been flowering for the last month and are starting to ...

GRAND FORKS – “Northern flicker” is the answer to one of the five most frequently asked questions about birds. The flicker is a misfit in several ways. It is a woodpecker, to begin with, and it ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT Yellow-shafted Flickers (Colaptes auratus auratus subspecies group of the Northern Flicker) occasionally have orange to red flight ...

My yard must be one of the most exciting places for northern flickers. These large, brown woodpeckers don’t do much hunting, hammering on trees and dead wood like most woodpeckers. Instead they go ...

While studying some of the birds feeding in my backyard, I saw a small woodpecker that acted and looked like a Downy. The only problem was that it had an almost black belly instead of a white one. The ...

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.