Even though it’s a woodpecker, the yellow-shafted flicker that inhabits the Lehigh Valley and Poconos might properly be considered the North American version of the anteater.

The enigmatic bird is the yellow-shafted form of the northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a medium-sized woodpecker that lives throughout North America.

The yellow-shafted flicker was once considered a separate species although in recent times its interbreeding with the red-shafted and gilded flicks of the West where their ranges overlap has ...

The name "yellow-shafted flicker" is one of a great many common names for this medium-sized woodpecker, which is known by birders as the Northern flicker.

A female “yellow-shafted” northern flicker pauses as she digs in the ground for food, presumably ants. Note the back bib on the front and the red coloring on the nape of the neck. Males look ...

For the yellow-shafted northern flicker, “you are what you eat” has proven freakishly true. These eastern North American woodpeckers get their name from a thin vein of yellow that runs through ...

One of the largest woodpeckers in Montana is the Northern Flicker. It is the most common woodpecker in the state. The “red-shafted” form is the western flicker. The “yellow-shafted” form ...

There are three varieties in North America: the "red-shafted" of the west, whose wings and tail have deep salmon linings and the male a red "mustache"; the "yellow-shafted" of the north and east ...

Despite the obvious visual differences between the Red-shafted Flicker of the west and the Yellow-shafted Flicker of the east, scientists have never before found genetic differences between them ...

The Red-shafted Flicker (Colaptes cafer) is one of two subspecies of Northern Flickers; the other subspecies is the Yellow-shafted Flicker (C. auratus).

This colorful species, known for many years as the Yellow-shafted flicker is indeed an anomaly in the woodpecker family. Read on to discover why this bird is rather peculiar as well as beautiful.

Lorde’s just released music video for her agitated Mockingjay: Part 1 theme “Yellow Flicker Beat” takes her typical ethereal motif to a new level with spasmodic, body-shaking moves that are ...