WOODPECKERS 



(letailcMl description of its plumago or habits 

 seems superfluous. It is a common bird 

 everywhere. It hops about on the hiwu with 

 tht robins, digging in ant liills or prol)ing 

 under the grass roots with its long bill in 

 search of any worm or cricket that may be 

 hidden there. It may be seen perched on 

 telegraph poles, peaks of houses, and, on rare 

 occasions, even on the coping of a business 

 block in the downtown district. It is a 

 familiar sight in the country about orchards 

 and fields, digging a hole for its nest in any 

 old stump or dead tree that may be handy 

 to its feeding grounds. 



The large white rump patch, which shows 

 distinctly as it flies, is the positive field mark 

 of this species. Its characteristic call notes 

 sound like ivicker-wicker-wicker, or yuclxer- 

 yucker-yuckery and again it shouts heigh-ho! 

 or warrup! as it sits in the top of a tree. 



Northern red-breasted sapsucker, 



Sphyrapicus ruber notkensis. 9.00 



Distribution: Northwest coast district; 



breeding from western Oregon northward 



through western Washington and British 



Columbia to southern Alaska. Closely allied 



species include the red-breasted sapsucker of 



California and south central Oregon, east of 



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