The birds will also consume the insects that are also attracted to the oozing sap. The yellow-bellied sapsucker is very habitual in nature, pecking “sample” holes to find a tree it likes.

If you’re unfamiliar with yellow-bellied sapsuckers, you’re not alone. They breed to our north and west – about 80% of them in Canada – and winter to our south, with about a third of them ...

I have selected a photo of an adult male yellow-bellied sapsucker to share with you today. I took this photo in August 2023. I love it because it has an “Audubon feel” to it. The bird is in an unusual ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers use their beaks to drill quarter-inch holes into trees’ bark in very neatly spaced rows to feed on the sap. Courtesy, James Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org ...

In rapid succession, pitch-perfect imitations of red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, gray tree frogs, red-tailed hawks, killdeer and house finches ...

Shooting or trapping yellow-bellied sapsuckers is not permitted as the birds are protected by state and federal wildlife laws under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Click here for important updates ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline ...

The tiny round-bodied, yellow-bellied bird in Meredith McBurney’s hands looked delicate, a creature to be handled with a lot of TLC. “They’re long-distance migrants. They’re tough birds,” McBurney ...