| Medium-sized bird with stout, sharp bill; long tongue; stiff tail feathers
Open forests and early successional stages that contain standing dead trees (snags)
Insects that live beneath the bark of trees (such as bark beetles) and some that live in the ground, including ants
Hawks, falcons, owls
Two subspecies of the northern flicker occur in Alaska: the red-shafted and the yellow-shafted.
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