Northern flickers can be mesmerizing. Showy and sometimes loud during courtship, ... Whatever you call it, flickers rank high among our most interesting, showy and ecologically valuable birds.

SAMUEL: (Imitating northern flicker chirps). DETROW: It almost sounds like you've got a kazoo or something, but that's just you. SAMUEL: Yeah. Well, I actually do have a kazoo in my bedroom.

It’s been almost a year since I moved from Northampton County suburbia to a rural Schuylkill County mountaintop. Although the change was driven by family considerations, being surrounded by n… ...

It sounds something like a hammer drill and drives house cats berserk. ... Flickers, on the other hand, are cavity nesters, relying on holes in decaying trees, ...

I heard a flicker call my name. A northern (red-shafted) flicker screamed in my backyard Tuesday. At my house in Benicia, that means fall officially has arrived. For the last 10 years, a flicker ...