Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, temperate forest. From 500 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada (B), Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (73)...)

Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus) [XC657350]
by Thomas Magarian from Sierra Nevada (near Greekstore), Placer County, California, United States (call)

Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus) [XC288979]
by Jeff Dyck from Marymoor Park, King County, Washington, United States (call, flight 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.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) - 10 files

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