Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male northern flicker hunts ants in McCormac's lawn. Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy ...

So far, the duct tape seems to be keeping the flicker away from its destructive front-door molding drilling. Or, perhaps they have chosen other nearby trees to make a nest. These two holes were ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Knock, knock! Are your northern flicker neighbors causing a ruckus this spring? Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital, conservation and education center, said Tuesday ...

On Wednesday morning, I woke up to 8 inches of snow and a population of woodpeckers at my backyard feeders that had exploded. The number of northern flickers went from three to four each morning to 14 ...

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 the ...