Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) - HBW 7, p. 453
French: Pic à nuque rouge
German: Rotnacken-Saftlecker
Spanish: Chupasavia Nuquirrojo
Taxonomy: Sphyrapicus varius var. nuchalis Baird, 1858, southern Rocky Mountains = Mimbres River, New Mexico, USA.
Forms a superspecies with S. varius and S. ruber; sometimes treated as conspecific with former, and in past also with latter; hybridizes occasionally with former in SW Canada (Alberta), more frequently with latter in various areas; has interbred rarely with S. thyroideus. Monotypic.
Distribution: Rocky Mountains from SE British Columbia and SW & SE Alberta E to W South Dakota, and S, discontinuously, to SE California, E Arizona and NE & S New Mexico; in winter from S California, Arizona and W Texas S to SC Mexico.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
-
An adult male working on sap wells it has drilled into a California Pepper (Schinus molle) Locality Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 January 2008 5 years ago 25 sec 4.8 -
An adult male at a California Pepper (Schinus molle), feeding Locality Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 January 2008 5 years ago 25 sec 4.6 -
A close-up of an adult male feeding at a California Pepper (Schinus molle) trunk Locality Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 January 2008 5 years ago 27 sec 4.4 -
A bird working on sap wells in a palm tree. Locality Death Valley, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Paul Clarke 19 October 2009 3 years ago 41 sec 4 -
A juvenile perched in a tree, looking around and flying away. Locality Shuttleworth Creek Road, British Columbia, Canada (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 14 August 2012 35 weeks ago 18 sec 3.6 -
Several views of a bird in a tree Locality Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Paul Clarke 5 years ago 59 sec 2.8
-
An adult male clinging to a tree trunk.
Locality Elkford, British Columbia, Canada (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 13 June 2012 16 weeks ago 4.3 -
A male foraging in a small tree along the Madera Canyon Trail
Locality Davis Mountains Preserve, Jeff Davis County, Texas, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Erik Breden 20 December 2008 3 years ago 4 -
A male foraging in a small tree along the Madera Canyon Trail
Locality Davis Mountains Preserve, Jeff Davis County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 20 December 2008 3 years ago 3 -
Adult feeding in its tree
Locality Hells Canyon, Wallowa County, Oregon, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Photo-ay 9 August 2008 3 years ago 3
- No sound recordings available yet
Email this page