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2.39 (0.691 - 4.08)|
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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Noisy and animated in spring, these woodpeckers drill parallel rows of small holes into the bark of living deciduous trees and, more rarely, coniferous trees. The sap that oozes from these "wells? is a main source of food throughout the summer, although adults supplement their diet with insects to obtain necessary protein. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are summer residents in northern forests across Canada east of the Rockies, south across the northern tier of the US and south in the Appalachians into Tennessee and North Carolina. They winter from the southeastern US south through the Caribbean and Central America to Panama (AOU 1998).
Favours mixed and deciduous woodland throughout the boreal forest and large mature aspen stands across the parkland and the south (Smith 1996).
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a common summer resident in mixed or deciduous woodlands throughout the boreal forest, but uncommon and local in the parklands, where it occurs only in more extensive and mature forest stands (Smith 1996) and in some areas with coulees and valleys. It has also bred in the Cypress Hills near Ravenscrag 10 Jun 1992 (Koes and Taylor 1992d), and there it possibly hybridizes with the Red-naped Sapsucker. However, the status of sapsuckers in southwest Saskatchewan is not well known.
Original text by Karen Wiebe. Text adapted and expanded upon by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=YBSA&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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