Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius
Taxa: Avian
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae

SE-GAP Spp Code: bYBSA
ITIS Species Code: 178202
NatureServe Element Code: ABNYF05010

KNOWN RANGE:

PREDICTED HABITAT:

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Range Map Link:

http://www.basic.ncsu.edu/segap/datazip/maps/SE_Range_bYBSA.pdf

Predicted Habitat Map Link:GAP Online Tool Link:
Data Download:

http://www.basic.ncsu.edu/segap/datazip/maps/SE_Dist_bYBSA.pdf

http://www.gapserve.ncsu.edu/segap/segap/index2.php?species=bYBSA

http://www.basic.ncsu.edu/segap/datazip/region/vert/bYBSA_se00.zip

PROTECTION STATUS:

Reported on March 14, 2011

Federal Status: --State Status: KY (N), NC (W2), NJ (S), NV (YES), NY (PB), OH (E), RI (Not Listed), TN (D), BC (4 (2005)), QC (Non suivie)
NS Global Rank: G5
NS State Rank: AK (SNA), AL (S5N), AR (S4N), AZ (S1N), CA (SNA), CO (SNA), CT (S4B), CT (S4B), DC (S2N), DE (SNA), FL(SNRN), GA (S5), IA (S1B,S3N), IL (S1S2), IN (S2B), IN (S2B), KS (S3N), KY (S3S4N), LA (S5N), MA (S4B,S4N), MD(SHB,S3N), MD (SHB,S3N), ME (S5B), MI (S5), MN (SNRB), MO (SNRN), MO (SNRN), MS (S5N), MT (SNA), NC (S3B,S5N),
ND (SNRB), NE (SNRN), NH (S5B), NJ (S4N), NM (S4N), NV (SNA), NY (S5), OH (S1), OK (S3N), PA (S4B,S3N), RI (SNA), SC(SNRN), SD (S3B), SD (S3B), TN (S1B,S4N), TX (S4N), VA (S1B,S4N), VT (S5B), VT (S5B), WA (SNA), WI (S4B), WI (S4B), WV(S1B,S3N), WY (SNA), AB (S5), BC (S5B), LB (S1?B), MB (S5B), MB (S5B), NB (S5B), NF (S2B), NS (S5B), NT (SNRB), ON(S5B), PE (S5B), QC (S5B), SK (S5B,S5M), YT (S4B)bYBSA

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SUMMARY OF PREDICTED HABITAT BY MANAGMENT AND GAP PROTECTION STATUS:
US FWS

US Forest Service

Tenn. Valley Author.

US DOD/ACOE

ha%

ha%

ha%

ha%

Status 10.005,792.1<10.000.00

Status 20.0024,810.2

40.000.00

Status 30.00

161,791.2

240.000.00

Status 40.000.000.000.00

Total

0.00

192,393.5

290.000.00

US Dept. of Energy

US Nat. Park ServiceNOAA

Other Federal Lands

ha%

ha%

ha%

ha%

Status 10.0

079,284.7

120.0

00.00

Status 2

0.0

00.0

00.0

00.00

Status 30.0

07,300.9

10.0

00.00

Status 40.0

00.0

00.0

00.00

Total

0.0086,585.6

130.0

00.00

Native Am. Reserv.

State Park/Hist. Park

State WMA/Gameland

ha%

ha%

ha%

ha%

Status 1

0.000.000.000.00

Status 2

0.002.1<1288.5<10.00Status 3

4,849.2<11,916.9<12,198.0<184.5<10.00
<10.0

00.0

00.0

0

1,919.0<12,486.5<184.5<1

Status 4
Total

4,849.2

State Coastal Reserve

ST Nat.Area/Preserve

ha%

ha%

ha%

Status 1

0.0

00.000.0

00.00

Status 20.00

1,400.9<10.000.00

Status 300.000.000.00

Status 40.00.000.000.0

00.00

Total

0.001,400.9<10.000.00Private Land - No Res.

Water%

Other State Landsha%

State Forest

Private Cons. Easemt.

Overall Total
ha%

ha%

ha

Status 1

0.0

00.0

085,076.8

Status 2

0.0

00.0

026,501.8

4

Status 3

0.0

00.00178,140.7

51

Status 4

217,739.2

330.2<1217,739.3

33

Total

217,739.2

330.2<1507,458.6

10013GAP Status 1: An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover and a mandated management plan in operation to maintain anatural state within which disturbance events (of natural type, frequency, and intensity) are allowed to proceed without interference or are mimicked
through management.
GAP Status 2: An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover and a mandated management plan in operation to maintain a
primarily natural state, but which may receive use or management practices that degrade the quality of existing natural communities.
GAP Status 3: An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover for the majority of the area, but subject to extractive uses ofeither a broad, low-intensity type or localized intense type. It also confers protection to federally listed endangered and threatened species throughout
the area.
GAP Status 4: Lack of irrevocable easement or mandate to prevent conversion of natural habitat types to anthropogenic habitat types. Allows for intensive
use throughout the tract. Also includes those tracts for which the existence of such restrictions or sufficient information to establish a higher status isunknown.

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PREDICTED HABITAT MODEL(S):

Summer Model:Habitat Description: A separate breeding race is found rarely to uncommonly in the high elevations of the mountains (Alsop1991, Simpson 1991), representing the southeastern-most range of the species (Nicholson 1997). They
prefers birch, poplar, elm & butternut, near water (B76IMH01AL). Locally, breeds only in open oak andnorthern hardwood forests (Simpson 1992). However are reported to use mixed woods in the northernrange (AOU1983). Typically uncommon in "deep" woods (Hamel 1992). Feeds on tree sap, including palmsand shrubs, and especially ornamental Camphor tree (Cinnamonum camphora) (Stevenson and Anderson
1994).
Yellow-bellied sapsuckers excavate cavities from 8 to 40 feet above the ground on a smooth section of thetree (Nicholson 1997). Feeds on the inner bark of trees, then returns later to eat the insects attracted tothe bleeding sap (Alsop 1991). Nesting distribution confined to fragmented, localized populations above
3500 ft. . A considerably larger number of breeding sites are now known than were in 1977. This isprobably a result of increased field work rather than an increase in the birds.
Quoted directly from existing state habitat notes - K. Cook, 17Feb05
Elevation Mask: > 1066m and < 2500m

Selected Map Units:
Functional Group

Map Unit Name

Anthropogenic

Deciduous Plantations

Anthropogenic

Low Intensity Developed

Forest/Woodland

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland

Forest/Woodland

Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Modifier

Forest/Woodland

Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest

Forest/Woodland

Appalachian Serpentine Woodland

Forest/Woodland

Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest

Forest/Woodland

Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest

Forest/Woodland

Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland

Forest/Woodland

Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier

Forest/Woodland

Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier

Forest/Woodland

Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest

Forest/Woodland

Southern and Central Appalachian Mafic Glade and Barrens

Forest/Woodland

Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest

Forest/Woodland

Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric

Wetlands

Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier

Wetlands

Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier

Wetlands

South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

CITATIONS:Alsop FJ III. 1991. Birds of the Smokies. Gatlinburg: Great Smoky Mountains Natural History
Association.

American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1993. Thirty-ninth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North AmericanBirds. Auk 110(3):675-682.
Hamel, P. B. 1992. The land manager's guide to the birds of the south. The Nature Conservancy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 367 pp + several
appendices.
Mitchell, W. A. 1988. Songbird nest boxes. Section 5.1.8, US Army Corps of Engineers Wildlife Resources Management Manual. Tech. Rep. EL88-19. Waterways Expt. Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi. 48 pp.

Mitchell, W.A. 1988. Songbird nest boxes. Section 5.1.8, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wildlife Resources Management Manual. Tech. Rep.
EL-88-19. Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi. 48 pp.
Nicholson CP. 1997. Atlas of the breeding birds of Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press.
Simpson MB Jr. 1992. Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina
Press.

Stevenson, H. M., and B. H. Anderson. 1994. The birdlife of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 892
pp.
For more information::bYBSA

SE-GAP Analysis Project / BaSIC

Compiled: 15 September 2011

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For more information::

SE-GAP Analysis Project / BaSIC

Compiled: 15 September 2011

127 David Clark Labs
Dept. of Biology, NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-7617(919) 513-2853

This data was compiled and/or developedby the Southeast GAP Analysis Project at
The Biodiversity and Spatial Information
Center, North Carolina State University.

www.basic.ncsu.edu/segapbYBSA

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