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Northern Flicker.
The yellowhammer, or northern flicker, is a woodpecker species that has a wide range, and is not endangered.
Your description is unfortunately fairly vague - it would help if you could give the approximate size of the bird, whereabouts you saw it (habitat, region of the US/world), what it was doing, etc. However, based on your description, I would assume it is a Northern Flicker. If you look for it in a field guide, it is with the woodpeckers.
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"Yellowhammer" is a nickname for the flicker, a type of woodpecker, that feeds on insects and their larvae.
"Golden winged woodpecker" is an old name for the northern flicker, which is the state bird of Alabama.
The "yellowhammer," or more correctly, flicker, is a woodpecker that is light brown with a spotted breast. Often seen on lawns in pursuit of insects. Flickers in the east have yellowish underwings (yellow shafted flicker), those in the west have reddish underwings (red shafted flicker).
The flicker, or yellowhammer, eats mainly insects and their larvae, also some fruits.
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In my part of the world - northern Idaho, the Red-Shafted Flicker is the most well-known and popular woodpecker.
probably a European starling