Clark's Nutcracker
Nucifraga columbiana
Family: Crows, jays, and magpies
Clark's Nutcracker is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
Did you know
Clark's nutcrackers, like other Corvids, are opportunistic feeders whose diet also includes a wide range of insect prey, rodents, nestling birds and eggs, amphibians, and carrion.
Clark's nutcrackers will also eat unattended human food in developed areas, and are known to some as "camp robbers".
Douglas fir is one of the few non-pine conifers whose seeds Clark's nutcracker regularly eats.