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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker ... Closer to home, I glanced out my back window April 10 to see a male flicker foraging on the lawn. That’s right, on the ground ...

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 ...