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Yellow-bellied sapsuckers breed in northern forests of aspen, birch, poplar, and other deciduous trees. Mated pairs often return to the same nest cavity every spring.

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The yellow-bellied sapsucker is very habitual in nature, pecking “sample” holes to find a tree it likes. Once it finds a tree that it prefers, it will come back to that same tree again and ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are a medium-sized woodpecker with strikingly bold markings that when viewed in multiple perspectives show that a master designer with an eye for balance and beauty did ...

The forested areas of East Texas are home to more species of woodpeckers than any other area of the state. With the ivory-billed woodpecker being extirpated (and most likely extinct) ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are black and white, with hard-to-see yellow bellies, red caps, and a red throat patch on males. Trending. Longtime Green Acres pastor David Dykes has died; ...

As a result, sapsuckers may spend quite a bit of time defending their sugar trees from hungry hummingbirds. However, hummingbirds are diabolically fast, so they do manage to pilfer some of the food ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are 8- to 9-inch-long woodpeckers that spend most of the year in Canada and the northern U.S., waiting until temperatures start to fall before flying south. There is a yel… ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker will return to the same tree repeatedly and the new holes are for the most part in line with old holes. The damage varies significantly by season and species.