Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, is a medium-sized bird you can easily ...

Previously the two were known as the red-shafted flicker and the yellow-shafted flicker. The red-shafted is the bird more commonly seen, while the yellow-shafted is seen in small numbers during ...

The red-shafted birds usually live west of the Mississippi ... The post An odd variety of Downy and Northern flicker birds have been eating in my backyard feeder appeared first on East Idaho ...

But, for bird lovers, the real election is going on ... One candidate, however, soars above the rest of the flock. It's the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus), whose social media manager is ...