Red-naped Sapsucker

This is a male because it has a red chin and throat. These woodpeckers drill a series of small, square wells in a tree trunk, making quite a perfect pattern of lined-up "holes". Then they lap up the sap (and insects) from these square wells with their fringed tongue.

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