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Yellow-bellied sapsucker by John James Audubon

Unlike most (if not all) woodpeckers one finds in Boston, the yellow-bellied sapsucker is migratory. I have never seen one outside of a park in the city, with the exception of a dead one I once found in an alley off Newbury Street not far from the Central Library. This image is taken from the BPL's copy of Audubon's Birds of America.