#1300 · 🐦 birds
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
🇳🇱 Geelbuiksapspecht ·Sphyrapicus varius
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what is it?
The yellow-bellied sapsucker ( Sphyrapicus varius ) is a medium-sized woodpecker that breeds in Canada and the north-northeastern United States.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 62,934 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 50 g.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Nederlands
- Geelbuiksapspecht
- scientific name
- Sphyrapicus varius
- class
- Aves
- order
- Piciformes
- family
- Picidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 62,934
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 50.3 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Picidae
#0559 📷 9Great Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Grote bonte specht
Dendrocopos major
LC 👀 2.3k in NL
#0633 📷 10Eurasian Green Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Groene specht
Picus viridis
LC 👀 422 in NL
#0700 📷 9Black Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Zwarte Specht
Dryocopus martius
LC 👀 158 in NL
#0709 📷 10Middle Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Middelste Bonte Specht
Dendrocoptes medius
LC 👀 140 in NL
#0721 📷 8Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Kleine bonte specht
Dryobates minor
LC 👀 103 in NL
#0781 📷 9Eurasian Wryneck
🇳🇱 Draaihals
Jynx torquilla
LC 👀 34 in NL
#1257 📷 10Downy Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Donsspecht
Dryobates pubescens
LC 🌍 216.6k seen
#1261 📷 9Northern Flicker
🇳🇱 Gouden Grondspecht
Colaptes auratus
LC 🌍 172.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 18463, Wikidata Q934735, GBIF 2478605, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.