noun
- a type of woodpecker that drills holes in trees to feed on sap and insects
Examples
- The yellow-bellied sapsucker is common in North American forests.
- We could see the neat rows of holes the sapsucker had drilled in the maple tree.
- Sapsuckers return to the same trees repeatedly to maintain their feeding sites.
- The red-naped sapsucker migrates south for the winter.
- Hummingbirds often visit sapsucker holes to drink the sweet sap.
- The sapsucker’s drilling creates a distinctive pattern on tree bark.