There are two calls that come into Ohio State University Extension offices this time of the year on a consistent basis. One concerns the damage done by yellow-bellied sapsuckers on trees, and the ...

Worldwide, there are almost 10,000 species of birds. After awhile, you begin to wonder if thinking of unique names for each of these species began to deplete creative reserves. Then again, some of the ...

If you think “woodpecker” is a funny name for a bird, how would you like to be called a “sapsucker?” Like Rodney Dangerfield, the Picidae family just gets no respect. There are 22 members of this ...

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...

The yellow-bellied sapsucker is a pretty bird that drills holes in rows, columns or rings around the trunks or limbs of your trees, especially young live oaks. Do they hurt anything? You bet they do.

If you listen closely during March and April, you may hear a distinct tapping sound in your neighborhood trees. A bird called the sapsucker is making the noise. Sapsuckers are migrating birds that ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker is a disparaging name for a little woodpecker. Yellow connotes cowardice, while sapsucker bespeaks a chump. The bird is merely a woodpecker that clings against a tree trunk at ...

LAGUNA WOODS – A rare bird, part of the woodpecker family, has been spotted in Orange County for the first time in years. The Williamson’s sapsucker is native to California’s mountain regions, but ...

This adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker bears the hallmarks of its species. Only the males have red on the chin, but adults of both sexes red on the forehead. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON My ...

My selection of a writing topic is not always an easy thing. Sometimes I sit down to the keyboard and find myself completely stuck. I haven’t had an idea all week and at the last minute, I still find ...