Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized woodpeckers ...

My yard must be one of the most exciting places for northern flickers. These large, brown woodpeckers don’t do much hunting, hammering on trees and dead wood like most woodpeckers. Instead they go ...

Clinging to tree bark, the Northern Flicker — with its cryptic brownish back with black horizontal stripes — can be hard to spot. Fix binoculars on the robin-sized body of this species and a stunning ...