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nougn a nuisance, tne r ncaer nas made many friends throughout America. At last count, people have given the bird 132 local names, which include “yarrup,” “high-hole,” and “goldenwinged woodpecker.” Alabama has adopted the Yellow-shafted Flicker as its state bird: “her soldiers marched off to the Civil War with feathers of the ‘yellowhammer’ stuck in their hats,” reports Song and Garden Birds of North America.
About half of the Flicker’s diet consists of ants. In American Land Birds a Professor Beal reports “finding 3,000 ants in the stomach of each of two Flickers and fully 5,000 in that of another.” A long, sticky tongue makes the capture of ants easy. The bird also eats grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, and caterpillars.
In regard to the Flicker’s habit of pecking holes in homes, the only remedy mentioned in either of the two books noted above is as follows: “...bird-boxes containing large entrances placed on the outside of the houses or on the treis near by, would have prevented those Flickers from forming the criminal habit of breaking and entering.”
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