Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
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About Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Perching Birds
- Family: Jays and Crows
Clark's nutcracker, sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker 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 summer and then retrieving them in the winter 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.
Source: Wikipedia
Visits
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2001-09-01
Lava Beds National Monument, United States of AmericaIn the higher elevations near the large lava flow. -
2008-09-20
Emigrant Wilderness, United States of America -
2010-01-16
Sugar Pine Point State Park, United States of America -
2012-07-13
Grand Teton National Park, United States of America -
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