The Red-shafted Northern Flicker is the western representative of the two Flickers in North America (the Yellow-shafted lives in eastern North America). The Flickers are an odd woodpecker in that they prefer to feed on the ground. They are so comfortable being on the ground, they have even been found nesting in abandoned Bank Swallow and Kingfisher burrows! Bit unusual for a woodpecker wouldn't you say!? But wait; there's more! Unlike other woodpeckers, the birds living in the northern latitudes migrate to the southern end of the species range (migration is unusual for a woodpecker). There is one other oddity about these birds. And that is they have over a hundred common names!