One fine April morning in 1919, an 11-year-old boy named Roger Tory Peterson was exploring a natural area in Jamestown, New York. He happened along what appeared to be a clump of dead feathers stuck ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Knock, knock! Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this spring? Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital, conservation and education center, said Tuesday ...

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 ...

Today, Brooklyn Bird Watch features a Heather Wolf photo of the Northern Flicker in Brooklyn Bridge Park. According to the Cornell Lab, uncharacteristic of wood peckers in general, Northern Flickers ...

Three of them flew off as my car slowed down. I saw their little white butt patches shining in the new morning sun. One of the Northern Flickers, however, was deeply absorbed in digging for insects in ...

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 ...

If you want to see a flicker, look on the ground and look soon. Flickers are moving south. The flicker is a species of woodpecker, but no matter. In migration, flickers are ground-loving birds. That's ...

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 ...

This northern flicker did not want to see this when it returned to its nest. The bird lands on a tree trunk right next to the hollow where it has nested and finds a head poking out! This head does ...