Clark's Nutcracker
Nucifraga columbiana
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 7,457
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), also known as Clark's crow, is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to the mountains of western North America. The nutcracker is an omnivore, but subsists mainly on pine nuts, burying seeds in the ground in the late summer and fall, and then retrieving them in the winter and spring by memory. The bird was described by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with William Clark first observing it in 1805 along the banks of the Salmon River, a tributary of the Columbia River.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Clark's nutcracker”.