Northern Flicker
| Colaptes auratus | Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers) |
Colaptes auratus
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)
The state bird of Alabama is nicknamed the yellowhammer, but is unrelated to the European songbird of that name. Flickers are genuine woodpeckers, but feed heavily on ants on the ground.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Empathy: An Innate Quality 2024
- Peabody Street Update: The Good News and the Bad News 2024
- My Backyard Habitat 2024
- Red-headed Woodpecker! 2024
- Chickens, Part I: Domestication 2024
- Summer Update 2023
- Dee Dee Nana and Walter's first official Bird Walk 2023
- Heartbreak on Peabody Street 2023
- 2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count, Part 2 2022
- Celebrating Individuals 2022
- Transition from Winter to Spring 2022
- Bird Feeding, Part I: Bird Seed 2022
- Hot, Peppery Bird Food 2021
- How Baby Woodpeckers Learn 2021
- Our Not-So-Far-Flung Correspondents: Letter from Aleda 2021
- Spring Update 2021
- April Update 2021
- 2020 Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2020
- Backyard Surveillance 2020
- A Conversation with Don Kroodsma, Part 5: European Starling 2020
- Laura's Best Bird EVER! Baby Flickers 2020
- Flickers 2020
- What to Make of a Diminished Thing 2020
- Spying on My Backyard Birds 2020
- Listener Favorite: Robyn's Saw-whet Owl 2018
- Peabody Street's Year of the House Wren 2017
- Birding in the Bog with Pip and Lisa 2016
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Nest Update 2016
- Woodpecker City! 2016
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2016
- Flickers 2015
- Bird Tongues Part I 2014
- One special warbler 2014
- Birding in Madison, Wisconsin 2013
- Barrow's Goldeneye 2013
- BWCA AT&T Tower Case, Part II 2011
- Peterson's Flickers 2008
- Book Review: the New Peterson Guide 2008
- Sapsucker Woods 2008
- Woodpeckers: Aldo Leopold's sawyers? 2007
- Poem by Phil Fitzpatrick: Flicker Days 2006
- Flicker vs. Monofilament 2006
- Migration Update 2006
- Starlings and House Sparrows 2005
- Birthday 2004 2004
- Duluth Birding Festival 2004
- Ice Storm 2003
- Window Strikes, Part I 2002
- Protective Gear 2000
- Autumn Report 2000
- Thunderstorms 2000
- Sibling Rivalry 1999
- Northern Flicker 1999
- Nighthawk monitoring 1999
- Saw-whet Owls: Early Spring 1999
- State Birds 1999
- Eastern Screech-Owl 1999
- Photon and the Ants 1998
- Salivary Glands 1997
- Cemetery Birds 1997
- Gettysburg 1997
- Woodpeckers 1997
- Salivary Glands 1997
- Flicker 1997
- Baby Bird Graduation 1997
- Protective Gear 1996
- Bird Houses 1996
- Good news about one little hummingbird 1995
- Flicker 1995
- Birds in the News 1995
- Northern Flickers (Placeholder) 1995
- Woodpeckers 1995
- Salivary Glands 1995
- Baby Flickers (Placeholder) 1994
- A Day in the Life 1994
- Baby Flickers (Placeholder) 1994
- Baby Flickers (Placeholder) 1994
- Lazy Summer Days (Placeholder) 1992
- Bird Songs 1992
- Flicker (Placeholder) 1991
- Summer Update 1991
- Blue Feathers, and Baker's Blue Jay Barn 1990
- European Starling 1990
- Thunderstorms 1990
- Northern Flicker 1990
- Autumn Report 1990
- 173 Bird Books 1989
- Woodpeckers 1989
- Migration Madness 1989
- Birds Laura Is Taking Care Of (Placeholder) 1989
- WIndow Kills 1989
- Birds That Say Their Names 1989
- Mortimer 1989
- Merlins 1989
- Avian Surrogate Motherhood 1989
- Bird Collecting. 1989
- Bird Collecting. 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- State Birds 1988
- Woodpeckers 1987
- Flickers 1987
- Surrogate Motherhood 1987
- Bird Collecting Then and Now 1987
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Birds That Say Their Names 1986
- A Walk along the Western Waterfront Trail 1986
Sound Recordings
- Sedge Wren: 3 minutes at close range 2024
- Northern Flicker nestling calling and feeding 2023
- Early morning in early July in Port Wing, Wisconsin 2022
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- Morning Song, June 21 2020
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- American Goldfinch, song bout 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Northern Flicker 2020
- Northern Flicker: 4 calls 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- Northern Flicker: 8 minutes of calling 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 2 2020
- Morning Songs, May 1 2020
- Robin singing at midmorning 2020
- Northern Flicker: 2 calls and drums 2020
- Sharp-tailed Grouse: 18 minutes of displaying 2019
- Northern Flicker: 17 *keer* notes 2018
- Dawn in a Sharp-tailed Grouse blind 2016
- 25 minutes in a Sharp-tailed Grouse blind 2016
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009