Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “This tricky member of the woodpecker family is in a plumage that’s not seen very often—it’s a very young juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker.

The only sapsucker normally found in the boreal and ... and the back is more extensively scalloped with yellow-buff. Adult male: forecrown, chin, and throat red, outlined completely in black ...

Juvenile: closely resembles the juvenile ... Breeding range narrowly overlaps that of the yellow-bellied sapsucker in Alberta, with some hybridization. Winter: riparian and pine-oak woodlands ...