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Williamson's Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus thyroideus ORDER: PICIFORMES FAMILY: PICIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Williamson

© Denny Mallory/CLO

A handsome woodpecker of the western mountains, the Williamson's Sapsucker, like other sapsuckers, specializes in drilling sap wells in trees.

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Calls

  • Calls, drums
    Recorded by David S. Herr
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a scratchy "quee-ah." Also chuuring. Drumming a slow, regular tapping.

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