slopsucker

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Depending on season and location, birders may spy western bluebirds, violet-green swallows, white-throated swifts and red-naped sapsuckers.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2016

Thirty million people will see firsthand what comes of a comfy childhood and extended adolescence and the life of a tycoon with a childlike worldview unchallenged by the hirelings and sapsuckers around him.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2016

The real scourges of air traffic these days are black-bellied plovers, herring gulls and yellow-bellied sapsuckers, aviation experts say.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2012

But all sapsuckers may be known by their pale yellowish under parts, and by the work they leave behind.

From The Woodpeckers by Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy

The two storehouses on the lawn seemed to belong to one family, whose labor alone had prepared them; certainly they were the property of the sapsuckers.

From Little Brothers of the Air by Miller, Olive Thorne