The Flicker Woodpecker

Collect all pages-cleaned and sized to
make a miniature book for your dolls

Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Flicker's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the bird illustrations and verse from "Bird Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

Red-Shafted Flicker hops around,
Eating the ants upon the ground;
He builds in any hollow tree
Where he's as snug as snug can be.

 

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"Birds come home to perch..." is an idiom meaning that a person's insults to others or his bad treatment of others will come home to hurt him or his own family eventually. In other words, if you mistreat others, eventually those who you hurt will attack you in your own home.

Winter Bird Visitors: The Flicker Woodpecker

A template of a Flicker Woodpecker

       Watch the video below to see just "how" to color your own flicker to fly about your room. Then cut out and assemble the bird using school glue. Bend down the two taps on the wings and glue these to either side of the bird body. Cut along the solid straight line shown at the inside edge of the tail feathers and slip this onto the end of the paper bird body. Secure all the pieces with glue and then tape a piece of thread between the wings to hang your paper flicker from the ceiling.

Northern Flicker Woodpecker Calling and Drumming.