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Red-breasted Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus ruber

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the forests of the west coast of North America. Taxonomy The red-breasted sapsucker was formally described in 1788 by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the woodpeckers in the genus Picus and coined the binomial name Picus ruber.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 196,981Canada · 36,980Mexico · 103