How to Use sapsucker in a Sentence

sapsucker

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• This is the time of year sapsucker can be active (late winter through spring).
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• On the front wall, a pair of Bullock’s orioles feeds three chicks, and a red-breasted sapsucker feeds two.
  — James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• Leave the bark covered until late April when the sapsuckers migrate north.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• Yep, those straight rows or columns of holes in the trunks and limbs of your tree are compliments of the pretty sapsucker woodpecker.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The holes are not caused by borers, but instead by woodpeckers or sapsuckers.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 27 Apr. 2018
• Hach-Otis' new piece hosts nests of rare birds, including the yellow-bellied sapsucker and cerulean warbler.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 14 May 2017
• The forest also is home to bear, coyote, deer and birds from hairy woodpeckers to red-breasted sapsuckers.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• For trees in stress with yellow leaves, mistletoe, sapsucker damage, dead tip growth and other symptoms, apply the entire Sick Tree Treatment.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
• Prior to Hercules' tenure at the airport, wildlife strikes have included at least two coyotes, two deer, three bats, three geese and a yellow bellied sapsucker.
  — Rick Steelhammer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• Kai noted two red-tailed hawks soaring above the building line along Central Park West, then abruptly stopped midsentence and peered through his binoculars at a yellow-bellied sapsucker and then at a yellow-rumped warbler.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
• Several noteworthy species of birds were observed: brown creeper, rusty blackbird, wood thrush and yellow-bellied sapsucker.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
• Other North American woodpeckers that cache are downy, red-headed, hairy, Lewis, red-bellied, gila, golden-fronted and red-bellied sapsucker.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024