Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male northern flicker hunts ants in McCormac's lawn. Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy ...

WOW! This male Northern Flicker is just SLURPING up the fine sunflower chips! Northern Flickers slurp their food as opposed to other birds cracking open the hard shells. They lay their eggs late May ...

WOW! This male Northern Flicker is just SLURPING up the fine sunflower chips! Northern Flickers slurp their food as opposed to other birds cracking open the hard shells. They lay their eggs late May ...

Northern flickers are confounding birds. Three of them showed up on my lawn early in August. I hadn’t seen flickers since early spring, when northbound migrants gathered on the lawn at our place west ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...