Northern flickers typically fly south as ground prey disappears in snow, but they could become more common as winters warm.

Are you constantly battling critters like squirrels, raccoons, and certain large birds like European Starlings? Consider using a feeder and cage combination like the one in this video. The Carolina ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus Central ...

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Facebook friend Melissa Hale posted on my page about her discovery of an unusual feather. "I think I have found a feather from a yellow-shafted flicker," she wrote. "Do we even have these around here?

The morning coldness was not the only thing that greeted me as I walked out to check my bird feeders early in the week.

I awaken to the bumble, rumble, scraping of the town plow along the road as it tosses the accumulated snow onto the rising verges of road drift. As the plow moves away, the world becomes snow-silent.