Red-naped Sapsucker Photo Gallery
Male
Small woodpecker with vertical white patch on the folded wing. Males have a red throat, crown, and small nape patch.
© Joshua Covill | Macaulay LibraryMontana, July 10, 2020Female
Females have a small white chin patch under the bill, while males have a fully red chin and throat. The nape on females can be red or white.
© Tammy McQuade | Macaulay LibraryColorado, July 01, 2018Male
Note the red sides of the throat without a black border (Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have a full black border to throat). Males have a fully red chin and throat; females have a white chin patch.
© Timothy Barksdale | Macaulay LibraryMontana, June 03, 1998Not all videos have soundJuvenile
Juveniles are washed in brown with a brown crown.
© Bobby Dailey | Macaulay LibraryBritish Columbia, July 10, 2017Male
Drills rows of parallel circular holes known as sap wells in tree bark to access tree sap.
© Joshua Covill | Macaulay LibraryMontana, June 15, 2016Male
Breeds in mixed forests of willow, aspen, birch, ponderosa pine, juniper, or Douglas-fir.
© Carol Riddell | Macaulay LibraryWashington, June 13, 2014Compare with Similar Species
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Woodpeckers(Order: Piciformes, Family: Picidae)
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