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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 123
- Image
- Clarks Nutcraker Crater Lake Nick Myatt 08 (4458470688).jpg
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- taxon name
- Nucifraga columbiana
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- Nucifraga columbiana
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- Nucifraga columbiana
- taxon common name
- quebra-nozes-americano
- litter size
- 3
- short name
- N. columbiana
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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.
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Birds described in 1811Birds of the Rio Grande valleysBirds of the Sierra Nevada (United States)Fauna of the Chihuahuan DesertIUCN Red List least concern speciesNative birds of the Western United StatesNative birds of Western CanadaNucifragaTaxa named by Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)Taxonbars with 20–24 taxon IDs