How to Use sapsucker in a Sentence

sapsucker

noun
  • This is the time of year sapsucker can be active (late winter through spring).
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The holes are not caused by borers, but instead by woodpeckers or sapsuckers.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Leave the bark covered until late April when the sapsuckers migrate north.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • On the front wall, a pair of Bullock’s orioles feeds three chicks, and a red-breasted sapsucker feeds two.
    — James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • The forest also is home to bear, coyote, deer and birds from hairy woodpeckers to red-breasted sapsuckers.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Yep, those straight rows or columns of holes in the trunks and limbs of your tree are compliments of the pretty sapsucker woodpecker.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Prior to Hercules' tenure at the airport, wildlife strikes have included at least two coyotes, two deer, three bats, three geese and a yellow bellied sapsucker.
    — Rick Steelhammer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The most common treatment is to prevent further feeding using control methods that discourage the sapsucker from returning.
    — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
  • For trees in stress with yellow leaves, mistletoe, sapsucker damage, dead tip growth and other symptoms, apply the entire Sick Tree Treatment.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Other North American woodpeckers that cache are downy, red-headed, hairy, Lewis, red-bellied, gila, golden-fronted and red-bellied sapsucker.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020

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