Clark's Nutcracker Images

Clark’s Nutcracker Images, Facts and Information:

Nucifraga columbiana

  • Clark’s Nutcrackers have pale gray heads and bodies, black bills and dark eyes, black wings with white patches and black tails with white edges. Sexes are similar.
  • Clark’s Nutcrackers are nonmigratory. They are resident from British Columbia and western Alberta to southern California and New Mexico. Clark’s Nutcrackers prefer habitats that include ponderosa pines, pinyon pines and junipers.
  • Clark’s Nutcrackers lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 16 to 18 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of nutcrackers can be called a “jar”, “suite”, “ballet” or a “booby” of nutcrackers.
  • Clark’s Nutcrackers can live to be at least 17 years of age.

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