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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nucifraga
- Mass
- 123
- Image
- Clarks Nutcraker Crater Lake Nick Myatt 08 (4458470688).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Nucifraga columbiana
- Commons category
- Nucifraga columbiana
- Commons gallery
- Nucifraga columbiana
- taxon common name
- quebra-nozes-americano
- litter size
- 3
- short name
- N. columbiana
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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.
Etymology and history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clark's Nutcracker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.