Red-naped Sapsucker Images, Facts and Information:
Sphyrapicus nuchalis
- Red-naped Sapsuckers are medium sized woodpeckers with black and white plumage, a white stripe on the wings, red crowns, throats and a red spot on the nape. The females usually have a bit of white right under their bills.
- Red-naped Sapsuckers are primarily western birds found in habitats that include mixed deciduous forests which include willows and aspens, they also breed in montane forests.
- Red-naped Sapsuckers drink sap and eat insects and fruits.
- They are migratory although some populations are year round residents in their range.
- Red-naped Sapsuckers are primary cavity nesters. They lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 12 to 13 days. Both sexes incubate and are monogamous.
- A group of sapsuckers is called a “slurp” of sapsuckers.
- Red-naped Sapsuckers can live to be 4 years old or older.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Red-naped Sapsucker photos.
Male Red-naped Sapsucker with a beak full of prey
Title: Male Red-naped Sapsucker with a beak full of prey
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Female Red-naped Sapsucker in the Uintas
Title: Female Red-naped Sapsucker in the Uintas
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Female Red-naped Sapsucker about to feed chicks
Title: Female Red-naped Sapsucker about to feed chicks
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Female Red-naped Sapsucker with food
Title: Female Red-naped Sapsucker with food
Location: Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/28/2016
Male Red-naped Sapsucker perched on an aspen
Title: Male Red-naped Sapsucker perched on an aspen
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/13/2015
Red-naped Sapsucker female
Title: Red-naped Sapsucker female
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Male Red-naped Sapsucker with food for his chicks
Title: Male Red-naped Sapsucker with food for his chicks
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Red-naped Sapsucker with prey in the shadows
Title: Red-naped Sapsucker with prey in the shadows
Location: Modoc Creek, Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/1/2014
Red-naped Sapsucker checking out the Williamson’s Sapsucker nest cavity
Title: Red-naped Sapsucker checking out the Williamson’s Sapsucker nest cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/30/2014
Adult male Red-naped Sapsucker
Title: Adult male Red-naped Sapsucker
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/30/2014
Red-naped Sapsucker male
Title: Red-naped Sapsucker male
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/30/2014
Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker on conifer trunk
Title: Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker on conifer trunk
Location: Ashley National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/11/2009
Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker
Title: Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker
Location: Ashley National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/11/2009
Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker in the Uintas
Title: Juvenile Red-naped Sapsucker in the Uintas
Location: Ashley National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/11/2009