Common Flicker Facts: aka the NORTHERN Flicker 🪶 Animal Fact Files

The common flicker, also known as the northern flicker, is a type of woodpecker. However, this woodpecker is weird! Learn all kinds of flicker facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!

Scientific Name: Colaptes auratus
Range: Northern Canada to Central America
Habitat: open forests
Size: about 1 foot (30.5 cm) long, 18 inch (45 cm) wingspan
Diet: primarily ants, also beetles and other insects, snails, fruit, etc.
Threats: humans, introduced starlings, racoons, cats, hawks
Lifespan: 10 years

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Common Flicker AKA Nothern Filcker 0:00
Common Flicker WEIRD WOODPECKER 0:29
Common Flicker DIET and RANGE 1:13
Common Flicker HABITAT and NESTS 1:42
Comomn Flicker THREATS 2:24
Common Flicker LIFE CYCLE 3:00
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Image and Video Credits:
Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren - https://flickr.com/photos/wildreturn/... ; https://flickr.com/photos/wildreturn/...
Will Scullin - https://flickr.com/photos/wscullin/16...
Don Henise - https://flickr.com/photos/kiskadee_3/... ; https://flickr.com/photos/kiskadee_3/... ; https://flickr.com/photos/kiskadee_3/... ; https://flickr.com/photos/kiskadee_3/...
Tony Phillips - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Julie Andreyev - https://vimeo.com/355764335 ; https://vimeo.com/571876448 ; https://vimeo.com/285870248 ; https://vimeo.com/579606910
Rosanna Gray - https://vimeo.com/64838727
New England Forestry Foundation - https://vimeo.com/412882857
Don Henise -    • Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) (Co...  
MicrophonicFool -    • Northern Flicker  
Jeremy Adams -    • Northern Flickers Scoping out a Nest ...  
desultrix -    • Northern Flicker  
Ostdrossel -    • A Flicker!   ;    • Northern Flicker  
ncglad -    • Northern Flicker with integrate plumage  
sl3rob -    • Northern Flickers  

Research Credits:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/N...
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/b...
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/speci...
https://www.birds-of-north-america.ne...
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/...
https://abcbirds.org/bird/northern-fl...
https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/flicker...
https://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDeta...

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