The other subspecies show various color patterns with the Western Red-shafted flicker found in Western North America having red feather shafts under the tail and underwings. They range in size ...

Northern flickers are in the woodpecker family yet they seem to be the exception for several generalizations about this group of birds. First, unlike other woodpeckers in the area, Northern flickers ...

According to Cornell Labs All About Birds (www.allaboutbirds.org), a northern flicker in Wyoming could be heard drumming on an abandoned tractor from a half-mile away!

At first researchers thought the birds were somehow interbreeding with the red-shafted northern flicker, which is lives in the West. Yet some of the oddly red birds were thousands of miles away ...