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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. When they fly you’ll see a flash of color in the wings – yellow if you’re in the East, red if you’re in the West – and a bright white flash on the rump.

Coquitlam BC Canada

This handsome Flicker was working over this burned, rotten tree stump. Must be some juicy insects in there.

Backyard birding St.Albert

....momentarily airborne before it dives for the feeders. In the background are autumn maple leaves on the October Glory Maple, or Acer rubrum. I had hoped to catch the flicker against that background.

 

Hadn't truly known how lovely October could look.

This female Northern Flicker was foraging on the ground for ants, rather like the ones crawling all over my feet and legs as I took this shot!

 

Taken in Florida.

 

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Early morning dim light, Looking for bugs. St.Albert Alberta.

A tiny northern flicker enjoys the blossoms of the giant saguaro on a very windy day in Apache Junction, AZ

 

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Six Mile Cypress Slough

Northern Flicker

 

iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/photos/117081797

 

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A migrating male yellow-shafted or maybe mixed red and yellow shafted northern flicker gives me a bit of an awkward pose. Other than starlings, grackles, and egrets, I haven't seen a lot of migrating birds this fall, perhaps because we've had such a warm October, especially at night.

Went back to see if I would find babies, not this time.

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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Wikipedia: The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) 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 (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, 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. It is the state bird of Alabama (known by its colloquial name of "yellowhammer").

 

Conservation status: Least Concern

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_flicker

This Northern Flicker has certainly taken to visiting our backyard feeders!

Paradise Inn, Mt. Rainier, WA.

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.

The Gilded Flicker's range is limited to the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern U.S. through Baja California and Mexico.

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)

 

Buckeye. Maricopa County, Arizona

 

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Tyrannus savana, photographed in Eastern Panama.

Northern Flicker in the back yard, poking through the grass sucking up ants. Zoom in to see an ant on her neck which escaped her tongue.

autumn on Caddo Lake

A female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in the Norway Maple tree in our yard.

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