They’re big and handsomely marked. When a flicker lands on the feeder, it gets your immediate attention. These are woodpeckers, but in many instances, they don’t appear to be a woodpecker.

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 ...

So are some members of Michigan’s archetypal administrative bloat — the ever-thickening layer of social-justice crusaders and orthodoxy enforcers who, nationwide, live parasitically off ...

This morning (April 25) I saw and heard another one and this time I think I can narrow down the identification to a specific member of the woodpecker family. Apparently when a northern flicker ...

USFWS Southeast/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 The Bon Secour National ... plus the red-bellied woodpecker and the cute Carolina chickadee. The birds exist against a stirring backdrop of craggy rock formations ...

but there’s a weird incident when his eyes roll back in his head and the lights flicker and crackle. As they say, curious. Then the skeptic, Carmichael the Conjurer (Ian Bliss), joins the show ...

They’re big and handsomely marked. When a flicker lands on the feeder, it gets your immediate attention. These are woodpeckers, but in many instances, they don’t appear to be a woodpecker.