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Yellow bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) female🐦

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SpeciesPiciformesPicidae
Birds

🐦Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)

The yellow-bellied sapsucker is a medium-sized woodpecker that breeds in Canada and the northeastern United States.

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≈ 1/1,230th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
7.8 years
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Everything we know about the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.05 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.04 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.12 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
7.8 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
12 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Yellow-bellied Sapsucker yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPiciformes
  5. ›familyPicidae
  6. ›genusSphyrapicus
  7. ›speciesSphyrapicus varius
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  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPiciformes
  3. familyPicidae
  4. genusSphyrapicus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPiciformes
  11. familyPicidae
  12. genusSphyrapicus
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In other languages
pica-pau-de-barriga-amarela (pt), Picot de pit groc (ca), datel rudohrdlý (cs), Gulbuget saftspætte (da), Gelbbauch-Saftlecker (de), Sphyrapicus varius (es) … and 21 more languages
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