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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus varius

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) is a medium-sized woodpecker that breeds in Canada and the northeastern United States. Taxonomy The yellow-bellied sapsucker was described and illustrated using a hand-coloured plate by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands which was published between 1729 and 1732. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he included the yellow-bellied sapsucker, coined the binomial name Picus varius and cited Catesby's book.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1,199,986Canada · 271,815Mexico · 10,076Cuba · 1,991United Kingdom · 511France · 42Netherlands · 2Ireland · 1