Williamson’s Sapsucker Images, Facts and Information:
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- Williamson’s Sapsuckers are medium sized woodpeckers with white rumps and yellow bellies. The females are dull brown and the male has black plumage with a white eye stripe and red neck.
- The males and females were once thought to be two different sapsucker species.
- Williamson’s Sapsuckers are primarily western birds found in habitats that include subalpine forests, open coniferous forests, and Ponderosa pine forests.
- Williamson’s Sapsucker eat ants, insect larvae, moths, sap and bark cambium.
- They do migrate to the southern part of their breeding range in the winter.
- Williamson’s Sapsuckers are primary cavity nesters. They lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. Both sexes incubate and are monogamous.
- A group of sapsuckers is called a “slurp” of sapsuckers.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Williamson’s Sapsucker photos.
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker clinging to an ancient conifer
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker clinging to an ancient conifer
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/3/2015
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker on a tree with three nesting cavities showing
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker on a tree with three nesting cavities showing
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/3/2015
Williamson’s Sapsucker at the Magical Sapsucker Tree
Title: Williamson’s Sapsucker at the Magical Sapsucker Tree
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/2/2015
Williamson’s Sapsucker clinging to an aspen
Title: Williamson’s Sapsucker clinging to an aspen
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/2/2015
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in an Idaho forest
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in an Idaho forest
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/2/2015
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker leaving the nesting cavity
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker leaving the nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Female Williamson’s Sapsucker bringing ants to the nestlings
Title: Female Williamson’s Sapsucker bringing ants to the nestlings
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Female Williamson’s Sapsucker with a bill full of prey for her chicks
Title: Female Williamson’s Sapsucker with a bill full of prey for her chicks
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker taking off with sawdust covered fecal sac
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker taking off with sawdust covered fecal sac
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Female Williamson’s Sapsucker flying away with a fecal sac
Title: Female Williamson’s Sapsucker flying away with a fecal sac
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Williamson’s Sapsucker female with food in her bill for her chicks
Title: Williamson’s Sapsucker female with food in her bill for her chicks
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Williamson’s Sapsucker male checking out his nest cavity
Title: Williamson’s Sapsucker male checking out his nest cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Female and male Williamson’s Sapsuckers together at their nest
Title: Female and male Williamson’s Sapsuckers together at their nest
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker with food in his bill for his chicks
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker with food in his bill for his chicks
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in the nesting cavity
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in the nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Female Williamson’s Sapsucker just after she flew in
Title: Female Williamson’s Sapsucker just after she flew in
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Williamson’s Sapsucker female looking into the nesting cavity
Title: Williamson’s Sapsucker female looking into the nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Female Williamson’s Sapsucker checking out the nesting cavity
Title: Female Williamson’s Sapsucker checking out the nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in Idaho
Title: Male Williamson’s Sapsucker in Idaho
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
Nesting tree – Aspen with carvings on it
Title: Nesting tree – Aspen with carvings on it
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
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