Alex Mustard / Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) male perched on the bonnet of a truck displaying to his reflection in the windscreen, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) carrying fecal sac from nest cavity in forest, Alaska

Tim Zurowski/ BIA / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male, British Columbia, Canada

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) at nest cavity with chicks, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) parent at nest cavity with chick, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) chicks in nest cavity ready to fledge, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) chicks in nest cavity ready to fledge, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) chick in nest cavity ready to fledge, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) entering nest cavity with chicks, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) chicks in nest cavity ready to fledge, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) entering nest cavity with begging chicks, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) parent brooding chicks in nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) at nest cavity with begging chicks, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) leaving nest cavity in forest, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) eggs in nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) leaving nest cavity in forest, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) at nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) at nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) clinging to tree trunk, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in nest cavity, Alaska

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in nest cavity, Alaska

Alan Murphy / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) female at nest cavity with chicks, British Columbia, Canada

Alan Murphy / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male at nest cavity with chicks, British Columbia, Canada

Donald M. Jones / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male feeding chicks at nest cavity, Montana

Donald M. Jones / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male, Montana

Graeme Guy / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male at nest cavity, British Columbia, Canada

Donald M. Jones / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) woodpecker male foraging, western Montana

George Sanker / Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) perched, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. July.

George Sanker / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) perched, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, June.

Nick Garbutt / Green-banded Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros) at nest hole, Araras Lodge, northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America.

Nick Garbutt / Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris) feeding on the ground, Northern Pantanal, Moto Grosso State, Brazil, South America.

Marie Read / Male Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) yellow-shafted form, calling from the tree where its nest hole is located, New York, USA, May.

John Cancalosi / Female Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus), Arizona, USA, February.

MYN / Juanjo Segura / Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, USA, November. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Charlie Summers / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) Colorado, USA, July

Gerrit Vyn / Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) adult female of the western red shafted form. Okanogan County, Washington, USA April

Marie Read / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) male, red-shafted race, looking out of its nest hole in Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) trunk, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA

Marie Read / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) female, red-shafted race, landing at its nest hole in Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) trunk, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA.

Marie Read / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), yellow-shafted form, male at nest hole in tree trunk, New York, USA. Note the tail being used as a prop.

John Cancalosi / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) feeding from seed feeder, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern Flicker {Colaptes auratus} Red-shafted form, female feeding young at nest hole, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, June

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern Flicker {Colaptes auratus} Red-shafted form, chick at nest hole, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, June

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern Flicker {Colaptes auratus} Red-shafted form, male at nest hole with young, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, June

Shattil & Rozinski / Northern Flicker {Colaptes auratus} camouflaged in tree, Denver, Colorado, USA

John Cancalosi / Northern Flicker bathing (Colaptes auratus), Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA.

David Welling / Northern flicker {Colaptes auratus} at nest hole on Birth tree trunk, Eastern Sierras, California, USA

Todd Pusser / Northern flicker {Colaptes auratus} emerging from tree hole, North Carolina, USA.