Red-naped Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus nuchalis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,764
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The red-naped sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) is a medium-sized North American woodpecker. Long thought to be a subspecies of the yellow-bellied sapsucker, it is now known to be a distinct species.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Red-naped sapsucker”.