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

Flickers are the only woodpeckers in North America that ... A few individuals stay through winter. The range of the northern flicker is from the tree limit in Alaska and Canada, south to the ...

The pictures invariably show a Northern flicker on the ground, not the expected place to find a woodpecker ... under the tail and underwings. They range in size from 11 to 14 inches in length ...

All three types of flickers will interbreed where their ranges meet ... names commonly used in reference to the northern flicker include golden-winged woodpecker, pigeon woodpecker and yellow ...

Northern Flickers are large brown woodpeckers with good looking ... cafer), but they commonly interbreed where their ranges overlapped and are now considered one species by the American ...

Where their ranges overlap (such as ... if you want to count the ivory-billed woodpecker, but that's a different story. The reason the northern flicker is so often found on short-grass areas ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS – “Northern flicker” is the answer to one of the five most frequently asked questions about birds. The flicker is a misfit in several ways. It is a woodpecker, to begin with ...