From my living room window the other day, I spied a large brownish bird with a striking white rump hopping about and pecking at something on my lawn. I recognized it immediately -- a Northern flicker, ...
The Auk, Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 698-706 (9 pages) The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), a common hole-nesting North American woodpecker, exhibits a highly significant latitudinal ...
The northern flicker is not uncommon in our area, but sometimes it seems like everyone is seeing flickers. Right now is one of those times. We’ve had many reports of flickers in the last couple of ...
ABSTRACT Melanin is a common pigment in the plumage of birds, but the extent to which its deposition in feathers is condition dependent and can be used as a reliable signal of quality and reproductive ...
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