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 ...

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 ...

As the sparkling, golden days of October pass, so do migrating birds winging their way south to warmer wintering grounds. Our feeders are back up swaying in the cool breeze. Down from higheraltitude ...

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 ...