She also says, “If a bird has a red throat, you know right away it is a male, and if the throat is white, you are looking at a female sapsucker.” Learn all about red-bellied woodpeckers.

The Pacific coast representative of the yellow-bellied sapsucker complex ... The red-breasted woodpecker hybridizes frequently with the red-naped in the Cascades and eastern Sierra Nevada.

Rows of pea-size holes, drilled in the trunks of thin-barked trees, are the beginnings of a story that stretches back ...

Then the female lays four to six white eggs per ... the official field guide of Birds & Blooms. Next, meet the sapsucker birds: woodpeckers with a sweet tooth.

The only sapsucker normally found in the boreal and eastern parts of the continent, this species is our most highly migratory woodpecker ... Adult female: similar to male, but the chin and ...