Northern Flicker

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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