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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of the most attractive and fascinating birds to visit our feeders is the Northern flicker. They’re big ... The red-shafted male has red mustaches. The yellow-shafted has black mustaches ...

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 ...