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The northern flicker 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. Wikipedia
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Very active and loud at my local conservation area, there are atleast four or five breeding pairs which make the woods a very active place!
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This woodpecker’s a bit of an outliar—it doesn’t just peck on trees like its cousins; it’s often spotted hopping around on the ground, slurping up ants and beetles with its long, sticky tongue. That’s unusual for a woodpecker!
It’s a stunning bird with its polka-dotted belly and a flash of bright yellow or red under its wings, depending on where it’s found (yellow in the East, red in the West). And its call? A loud, “wicka-wicka” that sounds like it’s laughing at you. Total character, this bird!
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Northern Flicker found at Griffin Family Nature Preserve. Infrequent sighting for me. Showing off the yellow on his tail feathers.
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/176608471
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A tiny northern flicker enjoys the blossoms of the giant saguaro on a very windy day in Apache Junction, AZ
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The Northern Flicker (male) puts on a show with crest raised and tail fanned as he greets his mate atop the tree where their nest is. Flicker mom took her leave and the male then went on the feed the chicks.
Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON
"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."
from allaboutbirds.org
I heard the rat-a-tat-tat of this bird long before I saw him. He was working this dead tree perhaps 75 yards from where I first heard the sound. Only moments after I spotted him, he turned from his work and spotted me, allowing me only this single shot before he flew away. I think it's a Common Flicker, but would be happy for any ID help.
There were seven eggs, and though it is impossible? to count, it looks like all the eggs hatched.
Mom and Pop are busy tending the newborns; feeding, cleaning, and feeding each other as they take turns tending the nest.
In our backyard, a female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) perches in the Maple tree, waiting her turn at the suet feeder
The somehow unusual Northern Flicker male with the burgundy colored moustache feeding at the nest.
May be a hybrid Red/Yellow Shafted Flicker?
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A large and common woodpecker of the saguaro cactus forests of the Sonoran Desert, the Gilded Flicker has the gray face and red mustache of the "red-shafted" form of the Northern Flicker, but the yellow wings of the "yellow-shafted" form. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
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