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 ...

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 Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing wood for their food like their relatives, digs for food in ...

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!” ...

The northern flicker is southern Alberta's most common woodpecker. ... What he was hearing was the sound coming from Nerman's basment. Doug has a hunch it might even have been the same bird.

The flicker, in fact, is a virtual ant-eating machine. It consumes ants more than any other species of birds. Biologists have found as many as 5,000 ants in a flicker’s stomach.