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Red-breasted Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus ruber (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Red-breasted Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus ruber, breeds in western North America and is a woodpecker in the Picidae family. It is found in forests along the west coast, from southeast Alaska and British Columbia south through western Washington, Oregon and northern California. Its breeding habitat is usually woodland with pine, hemlock, Douglas fir, fir and spruce, and it favours old-growth forest. It needs living trees for the sap it feeds on. The species was described by Gmelin in 1788 and is placed in the order Piciformes.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- North America: w
