One of the largest woodpeckers in Montana is the northern flicker. It is the most common woodpecker in the state. The “red-shafted” form is the western flicker. The “yellow-shafted” form ...

Northern flickers aren’t the typical woodpecker.At about 12 inches in length, flickers are between robins (9-11 inches) and crows (17-18 inches) in size. Generally, they have brown or grayish-brown ...

Size: 16 ½ inches long, crow-sized, Minnesota's largest woodpecker. Range: Found in eastern half of U.S., Pacific Northwest. Habits and habitat: A woodland bird, sometimes found at suet feeders.

Northern flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with black-scalloped plumage that live year-round in Nevada. Their brown plumage is richly patterned with black spots, bars and crescents. The red ...

Next to the pileated woodpecker, the dove-size Northern flicker is Georgia’s second-largest woodpecker. It’s also one of our most widespread birds, living in urban areas as well as forests. At ...

The flicker is the only woodpecker that spends much time on the ground. Flickers use a woodpecker adaptation, the bill, as a probe to find morsels of food underground, such as worms and grubs.

The Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing wood for their food like their relatives, digs for food in ...