Parent Male

Red-breasted Sapsucker RBSA (Sphyrapicus ruber)

 

Elk /Beaver Lake Park

Ponds near Equestrian Center

Saanich

Greater Victoria BC

 

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Field Mark Cues ^i^

Sapsucker with predominantly red head & breast

This shot to feature/document front features as sub-species study/exercise

 

Parent male didn't look to match

S. r. ruber

or ssp. daggetti

 

so perhaps these are

ssp.

S. r. notkensis

?

 

but i was not able to find pictorial or photographic

x references at time of posting

No conclusions drawn ...

 

 

Done