Part of the woodpecker family, the northern flicker, often known as the common flicker, is a medium-sized bird you can easily find in North America. It is among the few woodpecker species that ...

Species status: Northern flickers are common throughout much of North America, but they are thought to be declining in parts of their range. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy woodpecker goes by cotton-rump, high-hole, yellowhammer and at least 150 other colloquialisms. All these monikers speak to ...

Northern flickers, a species of woodpecker, have a distinct red V on the back of their neck. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals. LIFESTYLE.

The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus Central America and Cuba, where it prefers open woodlands and forest edges.

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 ...

A northern flicker female emerges from a cavity nest. Flickers create more cavities than other species of woodpeckers, and relatively large ones.

Northern flickers are a large species of woodpecker native to Central Oregon. They are drawn to buildings because the wood used in construction makes them the next closest structures replacing ...

Sure, I had seen northern flickers, as well as pileated woodpeckers — the much larger, red-headed Woody the Woodpecker prototype — drumming away at the rotten bark and trunks in search of bugs.