Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) [XC161449]
by Eric DeFonso from Glendenning Rd, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (drumming)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus) [XC748356]
by Paul Marvin from Chapman Saddle Rd, Sierra County, California, United States (call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) and Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis), and in the past sometimes treated as conspecific. Hybridizes with both, but especially Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis), wherever ranges overlap. Subspecies intergrade, completely in extreme southern Oregon.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
ruber (Gmelin, 1788) - Southern Alaska south to western Oregon.
daggetti Grinnell, 1901 - South-western Oregon northern and eastern California and western Nevada.