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Williamson's Sapsucker
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Map & ranges not to any scale nor absolute.
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Eats sap from holes in tree that it makes. It really likes to eat ants. It also will eat insects, & berries.
About 9 inches head to tail. Large white patch on wings. The only red is under the bill or on the chin.
It also has a yellow belly.
I personally feel they really messed up when naming these birds.
As far as I can see this is the only one with a yellow belly so why did they not call it the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker???
I hope you can see the yellow belly on or in this photograph.
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Now for the good images. Grand Canyon 11/2007
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I thought it was going to land on my camera.
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Hey come back here.
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Now that's more like it.
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Female Williamson
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Female again
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It's about to take off
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BYE All.
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