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 ...

Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, ... However, they also consume fruits and seeds, particularly in the winter. Follow A-Z Animals!

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, when they are seen in various ...

Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized ...

Northern flickers, a species of woodpecker, ... One winter, I watched a flock of flickers descend on some robustly growing poison ivy and strip it clean of its berries.

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 flicker’s plumage is dull and riotous at the same time. The bird is brownish and grayish overall, but with quite distinguished markings: yellow underwings, a large white spot on its rump, a ...

Sure, I had seen northern flickers, as well as pileated woodpeckers — the much larger, red-headed Woody the Woodpecker prototype — drumming away at the rotten bark and trunks in search of bugs.

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Wildlife experts say nest boxes beat trapping, killing the birds, for many reasons BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Knock, knock! Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this spring? Think Wild ...

Another interesting bird catch was a yellow-shafted northern flicker, the second largest woodpecker in the U.S. “Although they are common on Fort Cavazos in the fall and winter months, ...