BEMIDJI -- Minnesota is home to many types of woodpeckers, but the yellow-bellied sapsucker has the best name out of all of them -- at least in my opinion. They aren’t one you will often see at your ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker is a disparaging name for a little woodpecker. Yellow connotes cowardice, while sapsucker bespeaks a chump. The bird is merely a woodpecker that clings against a tree trunk at ...

I spend hours and hours of my free time sitting and watching the birds at my feeders. One result of all of this effort is that I have established a list of “regulars” that live in my yard. In the ...

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...

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 ...

This juvenile female yellow-bellied sapsucker definitely has a yellow belly, but she lacks the bold black and white patterns that appear on the heads of adults. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up ...