Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Date of this Version
12-1985
Citation
Tanya E. Bray, Barbara K. Padelford, and W. Ross Silcock, “The Red-Naped Sapsucker in Nebraska,” from Nebraska Bird Review (December 1985) 53(4).
Abstract
The Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) was for many years accorded subspecific status within Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyapicus varius), but the American Ornithologists’ Union recently revised this opinion, and now regards nuchalis as a “good” species (Auk 102:680). Red-naped Sapsucker can be added to the Nebraska (species) list on the basis of three specimens in the collection of the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM).
The breeding range of Red-naped Sapsucker includes the Rocky Mountains east of the Cascades from southwest Canada south to central Arizona and it winters in much of northern Mexico, north as far as the southern part of its breeding range (The NOU Checklist of North American Birds, Sixth Edition, 1983).
Comments
Copyright 1985 Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union. Used by permission.