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Adult Male (Reddish-shafted). Photo: Dawn Key/Audubon Photography Awards

Conservation status	Although still abundant and widespread, recent surveys indicate declines in population over much of the range since the 1960s. Introduced starlings compete with flickers for freshly excavated nesting sites, may drive the flickers away.
Family	Woodpeckers
Habitat	Open up forests, woodlots, groves, towns, semi-open up land. With its broad range, from Alaska to Nicaragua, the flicker can be establish in nearly any habitat with trees. Tends to avert dense unbroken wood, requiring some open ground for foraging. May be in very open up state with few copse.

This chocolate-brown woodpecker flashes bright colors nether the wings and tail when information technology flies. Its ringing calls and short bursts of drumming tin can exist heard in spring near throughout Northward America. Two very unlike-looking forms -- Yellow-shafted Flicker in the due east and due north, and Red-shafted Flicker in the westward -- were once considered split species. They interbreed wherever their ranges come up in contact. On the western Neat Plains, in that location is a broad zone where all the flickers are intergrades betwixt Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted.

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Feeding Beliefs

Forages by hopping on footing, climbing tree trunks and limbs, occasionally flying out to grab insects in the air. Likewise will perch in outer branches to eat fruits and berries. Has been reported catching immature bats leaving their roost in Wyoming.

Eggs

5-viii, sometimes 3-12. White. Incubation is by both sexes (with male person incubating at night and part of twenty-four hour period), 11-xvi days. Young: Both parents feed young, by regurgitation. Young get out nest about 4 weeks afterwards hatching, are fed by parents at first, subsequently following them to good foraging sites. one brood per year, or 2 in south.

Immature

Both parents feed young, by regurgitation. Immature leave nest about 4 weeks after hatching, are fed by parents at first, later following them to skilful foraging sites. 1 brood per year, or 2 in due south.

Diet

Mostly ants and other insects. Probably eats ants more frequently than whatever other North American bird. Too feeds on beetles, termites, caterpillars, and other insects. Eats many fruits and berries, especially in autumn and winter, and eats seeds and nuts at times.

Nesting

Males defend nesting territory with calling, drumming, and many aggressive displays, including swinging head back and forth, flicking wings open and spreading tail to show off brilliant underside. Courtship displays mostly similar. Nest site is cavity in tree or post, rarely in a burrow in the ground. Tree cavities usually in dead forest; pine, cottonwood, and willow are amid favored trees. Crenel excavated by both sexes, typically vi-20' above ground, sometimes much higher (to 100' or more).

Migration

Northern Yellow-shafted Flickers from Alaska and Canada strongly migratory, about traveling east and then south. Big flights move down Atlantic Coast in fall, migrating by day. Red-shafted Flickers often migrate shorter distances, moving south and from mountains into lowlands; some spread eastward on Slap-up Plains in winter.

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Migration

Northern Xanthous-shafted Flickers from Alaska and Canada strongly migratory, about traveling east and and then south. Big flights motility down Atlantic Coast in autumn, migrating by mean solar day. Red-shafted Flickers often drift shorter distances, moving southward and from mountains into lowlands; some spread east on Keen Plains in wintertime.

• All Seasons - Common
• All Seasons - Uncommon
• Breeding - Common
• Breeding - Uncommon
• Winter - Mutual
• Winter - Uncommon
• Migration - Common
• Migration - Uncommon

Songs and Calls

A loud, repeated flicker or wicka-wicka-wicka; too a loud kleeer.

Sound © Lang Elliott, Bob McGuire, Kevin Colver, Martyn Stewart and others.
Learn more than well-nigh this audio collection.

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Source: https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/northern-flicker

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