Northern flickers typically fly south as ground prey disappears in snow, but they could become more common as winters warm.

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Most of our familiar woodpeckers spend all winter among us, but an unusual woodpecker spends the warm seasons here, then migrates away in the fall. The Northern flicker is very unlike other ...

For unfamiliarity among common birds in our area, the northern flicker must surely take the prize. Flickers are abundant at this time of year, but judging from the questions I get about birds, many ...