The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don’t always act like typical woodpeckers. They ...

If you have heard the drumming in the past month or seen the swooping flight of this brown and red woodpecker, then you know it’s true: the Northern flicker. Breaking News - Vail, Beaver Creek and ...

Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, ... Although their body weight can vary greatly, it typically ranges from three to 5.9 ounces.

Northern flickers have the most widespread range of any North American woodpecker, found from the northern extent of the treeline up in Alaska and Northern Canada, south into Central America.

It’s been almost a year since I moved from Northampton County suburbia to a rural Schuylkill County mountaintop. Although the change was driven by family considerations, being surrounded by n… ...

Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized ...

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 ...

Flickers are also fiercely territorial and will defend their nest sites from other flickers and woodpeckers. You may also notice northern flickers making lots of noise on metal chimneys, roofs ...

A male yellow-shafted northern flicker woodpecker is seen in a tree on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) Lori Van Buren/Times Union.