Bill Stickler took this photo of a female red-shafted northern flicker landing on top of a fir tree in Spokane Valley on Jan. 22. Web extra: Submit your own outdoors-related photographs for a chance ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus Central ...

The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don’t always act like typical woodpeckers. They often ...

Three of them flew off as my car slowed down. I saw their little white butt patches shining in the new morning sun. One of the Northern Flickers, however, was deeply absorbed in digging for insects in ...

A female Northern Flicker digs for insects at a cemetery in Darien this week. Laurie LaRusso has stepped down as the head coach of the Darien girls volleyball program ...