flicker: see woodpecker woodpecker, common name for members of the Picidae, a large family of climbing birds found in most parts of the world. Woodpeckers typically have sharp, chisellike bills for pecking holes in tree trunks, and long, barbed, extensible tongues with which they impale
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Yellow-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus)

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Any of six species of New World woodpeckers (genus Colaptes) noted for spending much time on the ground eating ants. The sticky saliva of the flicker is alkaline, perhaps to counteract the formic acid that ants secrete. Its bill is more slender than that of most woodpeckers and is slightly down-curved. Most flickers have a white rump, black breast band, and varied head markings, and most are about 13 in. (33 cm) long.

flicker

An irregular sequence of frames in a movie or video image. The first flicker effect came from movie projectors that were out of synchronization with the film frames. See judder, interlace and flicker fusion rate.

flicker¹

Television a visual sensation, often seen in a television image, produced by periodic fluctuations in the brightness of light at a frequency below that covered by the persistence of vision

flicker²

any North American woodpecker of the genus Colaptes, esp C. auratus (yellow-shafted flicker), which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail

flicker [′flik·ər]

(optics)

A visual sensation produced by periodic fluctuations in light at rates ranging from a few cycles per second to a few tens of cycles per second.

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No references found	Northern flickers are also quite common in our area and are the only member of the woodpecker family that you'll commonly see on the ground eating insects -- they love ants FOR THE BIRDS; WOODPECKERS ALL SUMMER LONG by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) Not exactly a thrilling morning for veteran birder Dick Lamster, but then he saw the northern flickers congregating in a tree north of the pond, and not just the red-shafted version common in the West, but the yellow-shafted flicker - its underside feathers a bright yellow, a red chevron on the back of its head. COUNTING CROWS by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Among some of the significant birds seen in various spots, Buelow said, are "snow buntings and horned larks, swamps for eastern bluebirds, northern flickers and winter wrens, and back roads in the predawn for saw-whet owls. Storms can't clip the wings of Christmas Bird Count by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)	northern northern anthracnose Northern Basin River Ports Northern blotting Northern Campaign of 1926–27 Northern Cape Northern Caspian Oil and Gas Region Northern Caucasus Northern Caucasus Culture Northern Caucasus Economic Region Northern Caucasus Higher School Scientific Center SKNTs Northern Caucasus Meat and Wool Sheep Northern Caucasus Operation of 1920 Northern Caucasus Railroad Northern Caucasus Soviet Republic Northern Caucasus Swine Northern Caucasus Turkey Northern Commune Northern Cross Northern Crown Northern Dvina Northern Dvina River Northern European Sea Northern Expedition Northern Fleet northern flickers Northern Games Northern Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere annular mode Northern Highland - American Legion State Forest Northern Ireland Northern Land northern lights Northern Luo Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Northern Pacific Railway Northern Pacific Railway Co. Northern Railroad Northern Rhodesia Northern Schools Northern Sea Route Northern Society of Decembrists Northern Sporades Northern Star Northern Tavrida Northern Territory Northern Union of Russian Workers Northern Union of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Northern Urals Northern War	northern Europe northern Europe Northern Europe and North America Northern Europe Jazz Quartet Northern European Northern European Command Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine Northern European Historical Research Network Northern European Nuclear Information Group Northern European Regional Meeting Northern European Sea Northern European Youth Forum Northern Examinations and Assessment Board Northern Expedition Northern Exposure Northern Exposure Organics Northern Family Health Society Northern Federation of Draughts Northern Film & Media Northern Film Video Industry Association Northern Finland Birth Cohort Northern Fire Protection Program Northern Fishery Management Area Northern Fleet Northern Flicker Northern Flicker Northern Flicker Northern Flicker Northern Flicker northern flickers Northern Flower Growers Association northern flying squirrel northern flying squirrel Northern Food Industry Innovation Network Northern Forest Canoe Trail Northern Forest Diversification Center northern forest grasstree northern forest grasstree northern forest grasstree Northern Forest Heritage Park Northern Forest Land Council Northern Forest Lands Study Northern Forest Products Association Northern Forest Protection Fund Northern Formal Methods Workshop Northern Forts of Kronstadt Northern Forts of Kronstadt northern fowl mite northern fowl mite northern fowl mite northern fowl mite Northern Free State Northern Free-style Karate Association Northern Friends Peace Board Northern Frontier Visitors Association Northern Fulmars Northern Fulmars Northern Fur Seal Northern Fur Seal northern fur seals

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Northern flickers are also quite common in our area and are the only member of the woodpecker family that you'll commonly see on the ground eating insects -- they love ants

FOR THE BIRDS; WOODPECKERS ALL SUMMER LONG by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

Not exactly a thrilling morning for veteran birder Dick Lamster, but then he saw the northern flickers congregating in a tree north of the pond, and not just the red-shafted version common in the West, but the yellow-shafted flicker - its underside feathers a bright yellow, a red chevron on the back of its head.

COUNTING CROWS by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Among some of the significant birds seen in various spots, Buelow said, are "snow buntings and horned larks, swamps for eastern bluebirds, northern flickers and winter wrens, and back roads in the predawn for saw-whet owls.

Storms can't clip the wings of Christmas Bird Count by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

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Northern Caucasus Meat and Wool Sheep

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