Northern Flicker
The northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) or common flicker is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive…
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
By hour of day
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.