Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Sphyrapicus > Sphyrapicus variusSphyrapicus varius (Yellow-bellied Sapsucker)Synonyms: Picus varius (homotypic); Sphyrapicus varius appalachiensis; Sphyrapicus varius varius Language: French; Spanish The yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) is a medium-sized woodpecker found in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.6051 EDGE Score: 1.72368 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 50 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 3.4 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 49 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Temperate eastern forests, Boreal forests | | Wintering Geography [2] | Widespread | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Forests | | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 50 % | | Diet - Nectar [3] | 30 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 10 % | | Forages - Canopy [3] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [6] | 5 | | Clutches / Year [6] | 1 | | Fledging [4] | 27 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 12,000,000 | | Incubation [6] | 13 days | | Mating System [1] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 7 years 9 months | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 8 inches (20 cm) | | | Female Maturity [5] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [5] | 1 year |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands |
Mexico, United States |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 6LIFE HISTORY TRAITS OF OPEN- VS. CAVITY-NESTING BIRDS, Thomas E. Martin and Pingjun Li, Ecology, 73(2), 1992, pp. 579-592 ♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 8International Flea Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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