Purdue experts John Bonkowski and Tom Creswell wrote an article about sapsucker woodpecker damage in the Purdue Landscape Report. “Small holes arranged in neat, uniform rows and columns on the trunks ...

Breeding range narrowly overlaps that of the yellow-bellied sapsucker in Alberta, with some hybridization. Winter: riparian and pine-oak woodlands, orchards, and shade trees south to northwestern ...

Sapsuckers peck small holes, or "wells," in certain trees, and when the wells fill with sap, they feed, hence the name "sapsucker." Jacki thinks the mix of plants in her yard are what attracted ...

Sapsuckers are woodpeckers that specialize in drilling wells into the bark of living trees to feast on the sap that flows out, and snatch the insects that the sweet sap attracts. For Earth’s ...