Unlike other woodpeckers, there is very little difference between the male and female northern flicker. This article will guide you through the main differences between a male and female northern ...

The female lays from five to eight eggs, which hatch about 12 days later. Nestlings are ready to leave after about a month. • In Alabama, where the northern flicker is the state bird ...

I returned home the other day to find a male ... the female flicker is presumably enamored of her clangorous courter. A beautiful, conspicuous and charismatic bird, the northern flicker has ...

The male has a marking referred to as a red mustache that the female lacks ... if you want to put one up. The Northern flicker has been in decline throughout the United States, except in ...

A female northern flicker sits in her nest cavity on Douglas ... and use of nest cavities in (usually) dead trees. Both male and female excavate, but males do most of the work.

From this column’s headline you already know it’s the yellow-shafted flicker (more properly ... young flickers take on the plumage of the male, not the female as is common in most other ...

The flicker is an insect-eating woodpecker that does most of its feeding on the ground. Ants, beetles, caterpillars, cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers make up most of its food. It is fond of ...

The female in the photo looks the same as the male but lacks the male’s red mustache. The northern flicker found in the West is the red-shafted variety. Besides the red mustache of the male ...

One of the largest woodpeckers in Montana is the Northern Flicker ... yellow-shafted male has a black mustache. The yellow-shafted has yellow under the wings and tail. The female red-shafted ...