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A Northern Flicker foraging for food on the ground in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
Northern flickers are large woodpeckers with beautiful brown plumage richly patterned with black spots, bars, and crescents. . This is considered unusual among North American woodpeckers as in general, woodpeckers are black and white.
It is not unusual as well, to flush them from the ground as they are ground feeders, digging for insects with their slightly downcurved bills.
Here's a trio of them, again, in Lincoln Park.
For more information please consult All About Birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the BirdWeb.
Hope you have a great weekend!
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