Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Information
Length: 8 - 9"
Habitat:
Breeding habitat: Deciduous and mixed forests, especially woods with aspen. Requires dead trees or trees with some soft wood for excavating nest cavities.
Winter habitat: Orchards, parks, woodlands.
Diet: Tree sap and the inner bark of trees; insects such as ants, beetles, and moths; wild fruits and berries.
Calls & sounds of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Another photo of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Additional Information
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerRange, habitat, physical description, reproduction, lifespan, behavior, communication, food habits, predation, and conservation status. Includes photos. (From Animal Diversity Web)
Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
© Steven Russell Smith
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Identification Tips
- Medium-sized woodpecker
- Black head traversed by white postocular stripe extending down neck
- Red forehead
- Pale moustachial stripe offsets black chest and complete, thick black border to throat
- Black back with faint white bars
- Black wings, with white barring on flight feathers and bold white patch on wing coverts
- Yellow breast fades to whitish lower belly and vent, and is streaked sparsely about the flanks
- White rump
- Dark tail with black and white barring on centralmost and outermost retricies
- Very rarely shows red nape spot
- Red throat
- White throat
(Credit: U. S. Geological Survey)
Breeding Bird Survey Map,
2011-2015
(Image credit: USGS)
Winter Map from eBird
Sightings of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Nov-Mar over last 10 years