Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker breeds in Canada from the Rockies eastwards and in north-central, northeastern USA and down to the southern Appalachians.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
Fairly common throughout North Carolina in winter, sapsuckers nest only in the higher elevations of the Mountains. Sapsuckers are easy to identify -- look for the white stripe along the wing.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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Yellow-bellied sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
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Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are common summer residents over most of Alberta except the dry plains of the south. They are most common in the parkland, foothills and boreal forest.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
(Sphyrapicus varius)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a migrant in wooded areas of the lab.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
Flycatchers
Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) ...
Yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis)
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) ...
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (scientific)
Male yellow-headed blackbirds will breed with multiple females in the same year.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Spring Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Greater Scaup
Spring Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drills concentric rings of holes around tree trunks to drink sap. Vertical lines of holes indicate where sap was found. The Sapsucker returns many times to drink the sap and eat the insects it attracts.
Red squirrels lap sap from trees damaged by yellow-bellied sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus varius), and from other tree wounds [17].
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
231. Downy Woodpecker
232. Hairy Woodpecker
233. Three-toed Woodpecker
234. Black-backed Woodpecker
235. Northern Flicker
236. Pileated Woodpecker
237. Olive-sided Flycatcher
238. Eastern Wood-Pewee
239.
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Hairy Woodpecker
Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker ...
THE YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER.
[Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.]
PICUS VARIUS, Linn.
[Sphyrapicus varius.] ...
As warm spring days approach, neotropical migratory birds such as orioles, catbirds, ruby-throated hummingbirds, barn swallows, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, ...
Not well known, but probably similar to Yellow-bellied Sapsucker's.
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Relatives in same Genus
Red-naped Sapsucker (S. nuchalis)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (S. varius) ...
Miniature Moderately Diabolical Waterfowl Quiz
Robin Egg Blue
Answer to Avian ID Quiz #15
Juvenile Least Sandpipers Calidris minutilla
Sunning Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ...
The Downy Woodpecker and the Hairy Woodpecker both have white backs rather than the black and white ladder found on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Another similar bird, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker has a red forehead and white patches on its wings and ...
the red-breasted and yellow-bellied sapsuckers) may damage or kill trees by girdling them with small holes through which they eat some of the cambium and drink sap; they also feed on ants and wild fruit. The piculets are tiny (3-5 in./7.6-12.
 See also: Yellow-bellied, Woodpecker, Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy woodpecker
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