Flickers are members of the woodpecker family that spend a great deal of time on the ground digging for ants, as this Northern Flicker is doing. This video of a female (no black malar / mustache strip) was taken in my Philadelphia suburb backyard. Note that when she stretches and lifts her wings that you can see that the shafts on the primaries and underside of the wings are yellow - hence this being the 'yellow-shafted' race of this species, that is found in the eastern North America.
Flickers are members of the woodpecker family that spend a great deal of time on the ground digging for ants, as this Northern Flicker is doing. This video of a female (no black malar / mustache strip) was taken in my Philadelphia suburb backyard. Note that when she stretches and lifts her wings that you can see that the shafts on the primaries and underside of the wings are yellow - hence this being the 'yellow-shafted' race of this species, that is found in the eastern North America.