Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized woodpeckers ...

If you have heard the drumming in the past month or seen the swooping flight of this brown and red woodpecker, then you know it’s true: the Northern flicker has returned to the Vail Valley! Northern ...

Clinging to tree bark, the Northern Flicker — with its cryptic brownish back with black horizontal stripes — can be hard to spot. Fix binoculars on the robin-sized body of this species and a stunning ...

What a thrill to look out onto a cold, brown, winter landscape and catch a glimpse of red flit by the window. Grabbing a copy of “The Audubon Society’s Field Guide to North American Birds, Western ...