Nutcracker, Clark's

NUTCRACKER, CLARK'S (Nucifraga columbiana), is a medium-sized member of the CROW family. It is a white bird with black wing feathers and white wing and tail patches. It is widespread east of the COAST MTS in the southern Interior. Associated specifically with higher-altitude whitebark PINE forests, this bird has a long, pointed black beak with which it extracts the pine cone seeds that form the bulk of its diet. It carries up to 100 seeds at a time in a throat pouch and stores large quantities...

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