Male northern flickers hammer upon trees or metal surfaces to produce a loud, uniformly spaced, fast drumming sound. Woodpeckers use drumming the similar way songbirds use singing.

Today I awoke to the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps. Thankfully the bugle portion slept late. Coming to full consciousness, I realized the racket was merely a bird hammering on my chimney’s ...

Northern flicker spotted in Florence Northern flickers have a few subspecies, and those in western North America are have red feathers under their tails, underwings, and primary flight feathers ...

The northern flicker is an unusual woodpecker that delights us while it spends the winter in much of South Texas, from San Antonio to Houston. One might assume the bird, which is among the largest ...

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 ...

NORTHERN flicker sounds like something that might go wrong with your TV set in Manchester. In fact it is this spectacular North American woodpecker. If you spotted one on a tree, you’d see a ...

The pictures invariably show a Northern flicker on the ground, not the expected place to find a woodpecker. This colorful species, known for many years as the Yellow-shafted flicker is indeed an ...

The Northern Flicker (Colpates auratus), a type of woodpecker, is a beautiful bird: ... The flicker’s name comes from one of the sounds it makes, “Flicka flicka flicka!” ...