{"id":2333,"date":"2021-05-18T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/?page_id=2333"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:10:48","slug":"northern-flicker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/northern-flicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Flicker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/\">Longleaf Species &#8211; Montane<\/a><\/h5>\n<h2>Northern Flicker<\/h2>\n\t<h3>Northern Flicker<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>Status:<\/strong> Secure<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Northern Flicker<\/strong> is a woodpecker found all throughout North America. There are two different types of flicker, yellow-shafted and red-shafted. The yellow-shafted flickers are mostly found in the east and north parts of North America and the red-shafted flickers are mostly found in the western parts. Yellow-shafted flickers have yellow tails and yellow underwings with a gray head and nape. The male yellow-shafted flickers have black whiskers. The red-shafted flickers have red tails and red underwings, they also have a brown head with a gray face. These males have red whiskers instead of black ones. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/05\/Northern_Flicker-1.jpg\" alt=\"Northern_Flicker-1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1885\" width=\"1963\" title=\"Northern_Flicker-1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<iframe src='https:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/77132\/embed?simple=1' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' width='340' height='115'><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/05\/Northern_Flicker_male_Yellow-shafted.jpg\" alt=\"Northern_Flicker_male_Yellow-shafted\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1481\" width=\"1974\" title=\"Northern_Flicker_male_Yellow-shafted\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h3>Habitat &amp; Range<\/h3>\n<p>The northern flickers are found all over North America, throughout Canada and the United States. These flickers are able to live in a wide range of habitats as long as there are trees. They tend to stay away from forests that are too dense because they need open ground for foraging (searching for food).<\/p>\n<h3>Food Web &amp; Energy Flow<\/h3>\n<p>The main diet of Northern flickers consists of seeds and insects. Some of the insects they eat include ants, caterpillars, stink bugs, grasshoppers, and beetles. During the winter seasons, the sparrows rely mostly on seeds and berries. With this diet, these flickers are considered secondary consumers. <\/p>\n\t<h3>Relationship to Fire<\/h3>\n<p>Northern flickers consume most of the insects and seeds found on the forest floor. After a controlled fire happens, seeds and other material may fall to the ground leaving more food for the birds to eat. Without these frequent fires, it may become harder for the birds to find food, which may cause the birds to roam further away from their nesting sites. This can expose them to more predation the longer they take finding food. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/burning_longleaf.jpg\" alt=\"burning_longleaf\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"835\" width=\"1250\" title=\"burning_longleaf\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h3>Conservation Status<\/h3>\n<p>Although the northern flickers are considered Secure, they are dealing with habitat destruction and land use in many regions in North America. Human impact is slowly causing a decline in their overall population. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/05\/Northern-Flicker.jpg\" alt=\"State Level Conservation Status - NatureServe\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"559\" width=\"778\" title=\"Northern Flicker\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tState Level Conservation Status &#8211; NatureServe\n\t<h3><b><strong>Human Impacts\/ Threats<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/bb-plugin\/cache\/smokeybear-square.jpg\" alt=\"smokeybear\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" title=\"smokeybear\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t<h5>Fire Suppression<\/h5>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>Many people think of fires in the forest as bad, so they work hard to prevent or <em>suppress<\/em> them. But longleaf forests NEED regular fire to support habitat for the species that live there!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/bb-plugin\/cache\/development-square.jpg\" alt=\"development\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1600\" title=\"development\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t<h5>Land Use Conversion<\/h5>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>Longleaf forests and the habitat it supports is being cleared or <em>converted<\/em> to use the land for other uses like houses, roads, agriculture, and even to grow different types of trees to sell.<\/p>\n\t<h4>Resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\t\t<h3>Hero Journal<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What does it look like?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What does it need to survive?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong>Try sketching the species you chose, using scientific drawing techniques.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Habitat Type\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChoose this Species\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/04\/needles-footer.png\" alt=\"needles-footer\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"339\" width=\"1920\" title=\"needles-footer\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longleaf Species &#8211; Montane Northern Flicker Northern Flicker Status: Secure The Northern Flicker is a woodpecker found all throughout North America. There are two different types of flicker, yellow-shafted and red-shafted. The yellow-shafted flickers are mostly found in the east and north parts of North America and the red-shafted flickers are mostly found in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary cf-quest-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/montane\/northern-flicker\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":1883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2333\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}