Meet the yellow-bellied sapsucker, a member of the woodpecker family. Learn how to identify males and females, how to attract ...

Indiana is home to seven species of woodpecker, and all but one (the yellow-bellied sapsucker) are year-round residents.

A male hairy woodpecker is a regular visitor to my peanut butter feeders, also sampling from the suet from time to time. In a ...

The only sapsucker normally found in the boreal and eastern parts of the continent, this species is our most highly migratory woodpecker. Monotypic (smaller, darker resident birds in southern ...

The Pileated is the largest, being about the same size as the American Crow. It is the “Woody Woodpecker” of woodpeckers!

The red crowned pileated woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America. Learn about their call and sound, size and nests.

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.

Bears often mark trees with their claws or teeth to communicate with other bears. The yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) is a woodpecker in the family Picidae, like the pileated woodpecker.

Sapsuckers are woodpeckers that specialize in drilling wells into the bark of living trees to feast on the sap that flows out, and snatch the insects that the sweet sap attracts. For Earth’s ...