Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus varius, is a medium-sized woodpecker. The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is part of the New World sapsucker genus Sphyrapicus which is within the woodpecker family Picidae The genus also includes the Red-naped Sapsucker, Red-breasted Sapsucker and Williamson's Sapsucker. Adults are black on the back and wings with white bars; they have a black head with white lines down the side and a red forehead and crown, a yellow breast and upper belly, a white lower belly and rump and a black tail with a white central bar. Adult males have a red throat; females have a white throat.