The only sapsucker normally found in the boreal and ... and the back is more extensively scalloped with yellow-buff. Adult male: forecrown, chin, and throat red, outlined completely in black ...

Often parasitized by Bronzed Cowbirds, which lay their eggs in oriole nests. The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a medium-sized woodpecker known for drilling rows of holes in tree bark to extract sap.

The plea from Audubon N.C. follows a study last year that estimated more than 1 billion birds are killed in collisions with ...

The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin representative of the yellow-bellied sapsucker complex, the red-naped sapsucker closely resembles the yellow­bellied sapsucker, and the 2 hybridize in ...

Yellow birch is a favorite summer food of the yellow-bellied sapsuckers who extract the sap of the tree. After pecking and drilling quarter-inch holes in neatly arranged rows around the trunk or limbs ...