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.

Pretty as he can be, one particular Flicker returned to the area this week and flies around the nearby neighborhood landing ...

If I had woodpeckers pecking holes in one of my buildings, I would be checking for insects in the wood. I love having all these flickers for the winter. They will soon be gone and replaced by ...

A Calgary couple is frustrated by damage caused by a Northern Flicker, a kind of woodpecker that has been pecking holes in the stucco of their home.

The candidates are six birds that call the city home all year long: Anna’s hummingbird, black-capped chickadee, Pacific wren, pileated woodpecker, northern flicker, and varied thrush.