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 ...

What’s in a name? Sapsuckers are woodpeckers that do indeed suck sap. These birds have the peculiar habit of drilling tiny holes into the inner bark of a tree trunk, in neatly spaced rows. The birds ...

On a walk in First Landing State Park, I occasionally come across rows of holes drilled round a tree. The holes are reminiscent of some kind of cryptic message left to show the way. But the real ...

Mainers love their birds and so this summer we are telling you about a different bird each week with the help of Maine Audubon. Also read: Newborn in the woods? Nope, just a gray catbird In this Bird ...

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 ...

Q:A sapsucker has drilled holes around the trunk and on a number of branches of our fir trees. Bark is coming off on some of the areas because of the large number of holes left by this dirty bird. I ...

Another spring arrival is being sighted in country woodlots as well as in the city and suburbs. At first glance you may think the yellow-bellied sapsucker is a downy or hairy woodpecker but then you ...

Several readers have sent pictures of trees with neatly arranged rows of round or square holes encircling the trunks and oozing sap. No, it’s not an alien from Mars or a bothersome beetle that’s ...

The Pacific coast representative of the yellow-bellied sapsucker complex, the red-breasted sapsucker differs from other sapsuckers in its almost entirely red head and breast. Identification is ...

Saturday, March 7, is shaping up to be a sweet day for family fun. Fox Chase Farm will host Maple Sugar Day, and the John James Audubon Center will hold its annual Sapsucker Festival. The Sapsucker ...