| Clark's nutcracker | |
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| In Deschutes National Forest | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Nucifraga |
| Species: | N. columbiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Nucifraga columbiana (Wilson, 1811)
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Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker 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.
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Nucifraga columbiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22705909A130407851. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22705909A130407851.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.