Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Sphyrapicus varius

Misleading: it doesn't suck sap, it drills neat rows of holes and laps it up with a brushy tongue. Its scientific name, Sphyrapicus, means 'hammer woodpecker.'

Sphyrapicus combines the Greek sphura, 'hammer,' and pikos, 'woodpecker'; varius means 'variegated.' In Roman myth, the sorceress Circe turned King Picus into a woodpecker when he rejected her.