A woodpecker by any other name is … a flicker. Flickers are members of the Picidae family, which also includes sapsuckers. Birds of this family use their chiseled bills to bore into trees. Sapsuckers ...

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy woodpecker goes by cotton-rump, high-hole, yellowhammer and at least 150 other colloquialisms. All these monikers speak to the ...

Most of our familiar woodpeckers spend all winter among us, but an unusual woodpecker spends the warm seasons here, then migrates away in the fall. The Northern flicker is very unlike other ...