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jmorlan

Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)

This brightly colored woodpecker is endemic to the Pacific Northwest They are primarily a migrant and winter visitor to our area. They are famous for drilling into live trees and lapping up the leaking sap with their brush-tipped tongue. This video shows it creating a fresh hole. This individual shows characters suggesting the more northern nominate subspecies S. r. ruber which is very rare in California. It is brighter than the more southern S. r. daggetti. The two subspecies intergrade near the Oregon/California border and this individual might be an example of that.
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Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Date taken
16 February 2021
Scientific name
Sphyrapicus ruber
Equipment used
Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
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Kits
What a colourful chap and an interesting video, Joseph.
 
delia todd
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A cracking video that Joe!!

You've handled that so well my friend. Very well done lad.
 
C
I think a Red Breasted Sapsucker was at my bird feeder in Upstate New York! Is that possible? I have never seen a bird like this and I am an avid Bird watcher.
 
C
I thought about that too. I have a bird reference book for the Northeast but I did not come to that conclusion because there were no pictures of the bird I saw. If I see it again, I will try and get a picture
Thanks!
 

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