The flicker is both a common and conspicuous species here, but it remains a bird of mystery. Only one species draws brings more telephone calls and emails, and that is the bald eagle. The eagle brings ...

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?

While many of our region’s colorful birds fly south for the cold months, resident woodpeckers offer a reliable contrast to this season’s monochrome palette. A pileated woodpecker’s blazing crest and ...

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 ...

A woodpecker by any other name is … a flicker. Flickers are members of the Picidae family, which also includes sapsuckers. Birds of this family use their chiseled bills to bore into trees. Sapsuckers ...

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 ...

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 ...