Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Animal Pictures
Sphyrapicus varius
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker feeding at tree
While sap is not the only thing yellow bellies eat, it accounts for a significant proportion of their diet, and the majority of their foraging time is spent creating, maintaining, inspecting, and feeding from sap wells.
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker searching for food in a boreal forest north Quebec, Canada.
Yellow-belly sapsuckers are omnivores, and like their namesake, sapsuckers eat, live and breathe sap.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker woodpecker sitting on a tree
These amazing birds use multiple calls to communicate with each other.
