Even if you wouldn’t know what it was if it landed on your shoulder, you’ve probably heard the northern flicker’s distinctive drumming in spring. It sounds something like a hammer drill and drives ...

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. The ...

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 attention.

I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn’t as alone as I’d thought. Thanks to the app I’d just downloaded on my phone — the popular ...

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 the ...

The red-shafted northern flicker is common in New Mexico, especially as springtime nears. We’ve had many reported sightings in the last couple of weeks. Northern Flickers are found throughout the U.S.

Clinging to tree bark, the Northern Flicker — with its cryptic brownish back with black horizontal stripes — can be hard to spot. Fix binoculars on the robin-sized body of this species and a stunning ...

NORTHERN flicker sounds like something that might go wrong with your TV set in Manchester. In fact it is this spectacular North American woodpecker. If you spotted one on a tree, you’d see a handsome ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Late last September, I saw the first Northern flicker of the season passing ...