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Wikipedia: The northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) or common flicker is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket[citation needed], heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls.
Conservation Status: Least Concern
I haven't been that active with postings. I saw this photo stashed away in one of my folders. This flicker was tailing a group of blue jays foraging in my backyard.
picking away at the bugs in our cedar shakes....the day had been rainy and then between the dark clouds the sun came out to light him up~~~ luckily I was gardening with my camera close by....is there any other way????
Northern Flicker
The Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker pair are very skittish but welcome visitors to my yard in Chester County, PA
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The Flicker was a shot that I took and I used a texture by Jai Johnson for the background.. An attempt at art ...
Northern Flicker, one of my all time favorite woodpeckers. They don't visit too often and when they do, it's apparent that the Red Bellied and the Flicker do not see eye to eye.
it was a treat to see this pair of northern flickers engaging in mating rituals. they were displaying to each other by fanning out their tails. He would change his posture and she would do a little dance from side to side. this image is part of the series of photos I took which started on this post and then moved on to a tree
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"I will fall with the rain
I will flicker with the flame
The fire
The fire
These are the marching orders
These are the rules that we break
These are the doubts we cling to
Tryin' to get more
Tryin' to get more..."
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Been watching birds eat apples today. If I wondered what I was going to do the remaining ones, I need wonder no more because the birds are gobbling them down like they haven't eaten all year!!!!!!!!!! LOL Makes for some good bird opps!!!
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Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) singing its territorial song in the aspen woods north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
15 June, 2016.
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Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill.
My Sibley guide says the Northern Flicker is common and widespread ... not for me. It's a nemesis bird. At best, I see them way up there in the tallest tree. So this for me was almost an out-of-body experience. A Flicker, foraging, on the ground, in no hurry to fly from my camera. Turns out I learned something too - unlike other woodpeckers, it DOES forage on the ground, feeding partcularly on ants. This gal was really digging in, as you can see, her bill crusted a bit with dirt. She's very close to a teeny creek, by the way.
Northern flickers started showing up a few days ago. We ave had them in the yard.
This one is from April 24, 2022.
Rondeau Provincial Park.
Colaptes auratus
Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants.
source - allaboutbirds-org.