While studying some of the birds feeding in my backyard, I saw a small woodpecker that acted and looked like a Downy. The only problem was that it had an almost black belly instead of a white one. The ...

Few birds have more common names than the northern flicker. This flashy woodpecker goes by cotton-rump, high-hole, yellowhammer and at least 150 other colloquialisms. All these monikers speak to the ...