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• n  small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees

• Now when you're on a nature hike and spot that yellow-bellied sapsucker, you can get right in his beak--without startling him from his perch.
• Now when you're on a nature hike and spot that yellow-bellied sapsucker, you can get right in his beak without startling him from his perch.

News & Articles

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• Bird Bits: A slurp of sapsuckers
  A red-breasted sapsucker was hawking for insects recently above the Community Garden at Montana Creek. Hawking is a hunting technique: from a perch make a dart into the air, stall, snatch a winged insect in a beak and twirl back to the perch.
  July 26, 2013 - Juneau Empire