A survey of ground nesting birds on around 3,000 acres of moorland in north Northumberland has shown dramatic declines of ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...

Unicoi County Summer Count took place Saturday, June 14, with 15 observers in six parties. Sharp-eyed counters tallied 107 ...

The Northern flicker is also the only woodpecker to serve a state — Alabama — as an official bird. The flicker earned this distinction back in 1927. Soldiers from Alabama who fought for the ...

Northern flicker at Point Reyes. (© Robin Gwen Agarwal via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) But other efforts, such as a federal effort to “rewild” pockets of the San Joaquin desert at Atwell Island and ...

The Northern Pintail is a dabbling duck that prefers the shallows of fresh water where it feeds primarily on vegetation matter. The normal habitats of this duck species are marshes, prairies, fresh ...

For example, finches, cardinals, mockingbirds, and northern flickers eat slightly above ground level. So, to welcome a greater diversity of feathered species, place their feeding stations at heights ...

A Calgary couple is frustrated by damage caused by a Northern Flicker, a kind of woodpecker that has been pecking holes in the stucco of their home.

Long Island LI Life With 500 species, Long Island is a birders' paradise Callan Fleck has spent years photographing local woodpeckers and has captured all seven species that appear on Long Island.

There is a third sub-species called a “gilded” flicker that lives in southern California and Mexico. It does not usually show up in the northern United States.

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus ...