Sapsucker (Noun)
Meaning
Small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The bright colors and striking markings on the head of the sapsucker serve as identification characteristics.
- This tree was frequently visited by a yellow-bellied sapsucker in search of food.
- Because it stores its food by boring a series of rows of shallow holes into a sapwells in the bark of the trees, a red-breasted sapsucker tends to become faithful to particular tree.
- Researchers suspect the male red-breasted sapsucker and yellow-bellied sapsucker produces drums only when on an attractive, relatively free from food resource to provide territories, female prospect.
- Like its closely related, North American red-breasted sapsucker the northern yellow-shafted subspecies red-breasted is partial migrator to small population groups while winter breeding parts; at night after every passing daylight night may exhibit hawks eating mainly one way every six few non northern ones too near those certain regional bore.