Northern Flicker

You Are What You Eat: A Flicker Mystery Solved

It’s been a head-scratcher for quite some time.  What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. bearing some orange feathers? (As…

Watch Northern Flickers As They Are Coaxed From Their Cavity Nest

Unlike cavity nesting ducklings which hatch precocial (eyes open, covered with down and ready to go), most cavity nesting birds…

Red-shafted Northern Flickers Feeding Nestlings

My nestling Red-shafted Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) are around two weeks old now and the adults are still entering the…

One Lucky Flicker

Thud! That awful sound of a bird hitting a window. What comes next? So many times these situations end badly, which…

Northern Flicker Nestlings at Ten Days

Continuing my Northern Flicker (Collaptes auratus) nestling observations from my last post, I was amazed at what I found when I opened…

Northern Flickers Have Found My Nest Box

As some of you may know, I have been monitoring about 35 nest boxes on three Bluebird Trails going on seven…

Northern Flicker Intergrade in California

The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is the third largest woodpecker in North America if you count the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It…

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