Clark's Nutcracker

Description: -Photo by Simon Wray, Oregon Department of FIsh and Wildlife Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) On his historic expedition with Meriwether Lewis, Captain William Clark, the bird's namesake, first mistook this species for a woodpecker undoubtedly because of its long, sharp beak. However, this most specialized member of the North American Crow family uses this apparatus to pry loose its favored seeds from unrelenting cones of several pines, with which the nutcracker has a symbiotic relationship. The whitebark pine, in particular, is totally reliant on Clark's Nutcrackers for seed dispersal and germination. In Oregon the Clark's Nutcracker is a resident along the crest of the Cascades, usually above 4,000 feet, lower on the east slope, from the Columbia River south to the California border, west into the Siskiyous, and east to the Warner Mountains, northeast throughout the Blue and Wallowa mountains. It is very common at Crater Lake. Date: 11 May 2012, 13:18. Source: clarks_nutcracker_2_wray. Author: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Description: Nucifraga columbiana (Wilson, 1811), Clark's Nutcracker, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, 21 September 2016. Date: 21 September 2016, 21:19. Source: Nucifraga columbiana. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location40° 24′ 02.06″ N, 105° 39′ 48.4″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 40.400572; -105.663445.

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Description: English: Clark's nutcracker in Crater Lake National Park. Date: 20 June 2009, 16:46:37. Source: Own work. Author: Yathin S Krishnappa. : This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Added empty space behind the bird in processing.

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Description: Nucifraga columbiana (Wilson, 1811), Clark's Nutcracker, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, 21 September 2016. Date: 21 September 2016, 21:19. Source: Nucifraga columbiana. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location40° 24′ 02.05″ N, 105° 39′ 47.96″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 40.400569; -105.663323.

Description: -Photo by Simon Wray, Oregon Department of FIsh and Wildlife Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) On his historic expedition with Meriwether Lewis, Captain William Clark, the bird's namesake, first mistook this species for a woodpecker undoubtedly because of its long, sharp beak. However, this most specialized member of the North American Crow family uses this apparatus to pry loose its favored seeds from unrelenting cones of several pines, with which the nutcracker has a symbiotic relationship. The whitebark pine, in particular, is totally reliant on Clark's Nutcrackers for seed dispersal and germination. In Oregon the Clark's Nutcracker is a resident along the crest of the Cascades, usually above 4,000 feet, lower on the east slope, from the Columbia River south to the California border, west into the Siskiyous, and east to the Warner Mountains, northeast throughout the Blue and Wallowa mountains. It is very common at Crater Lake. Date: 11 May 2012, 13:18. Source: clarks_nutcracker_1. Author: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Description: Deutsch: Juveniler Kiefernhäher (Nucifraga caryocatactes) English: Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes), juvenile. Date: 1 September 2010. Source: : This image is Image Number 1374044 at Forestry Images, a source for forest health, natural resources and silviculture images operated by The Bugwood Network at the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service.. Author: Terry Spivey, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org. Permission (Reusing this file): : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license.:. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en CC BY 3.0 us Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 us truetrue.

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