The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Skip to main content. You have permission to edit this article. ...

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 ...

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.

A woodpecker by any other name is … a flicker. Flickers are members of the Picidae family, which also includes sapsuckers. Birds of this family use their chiseled bills to bore into trees ...

If there’s one species that changed the American world of birds, it’s the yellow-shafted flicker. As recently as the 1920s, birdwatching was largely done with shotguns rather than binoculars ...

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