Male northern flickers hammer upon trees or metal surfaces to produce a loud, uniformly spaced, fast drumming sound. Woodpeckers use drumming the similar way songbirds use singing.

A male northern flicker shows his red mustache mark, identifying him as the red-shafted type. (Photo by Detlef Buettner) On the Trails: Northern flickers visit Juneau. By Mary F. Willson; ...

Northern flickers can be mesmerizing. ... I returned home the other day to find a male flicker occupying my backyard feeder, and I quickly set about making some photos.

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.

Joan Carson: Northern flickers are woodpeckers that don’t always act like woodpeckers ... The red-shafted male has red mustaches. The yellow-shafted has black mustaches and a red nape.

Northern Flicker eating SuperSuet in the Log Suet Cylinder Feeder. ... The male Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video is clearly enjoying the hot pepper suet in this log-shaped feeder.

Closer to home, I glanced out my back window April 10 to see a male flicker foraging on the lawn. That’s right, on the ground – not high on tree bark like most woodpeckers.

This large, striking member of the woodpecker family is a foot long, with a bold speckled chest and hard to miss black bib, the northern flicker is the only woodpecker to regularly feed on the ...

The champion, though, is the male Northern flicker, which sits on incubating eggs all night and half the day. Most male birds faithfully bring food to their mates that are sitting on the nest.