| Common Name: | Nutcracker, Clarks | | Scientific Name: | Nucifraga columbiana | | Family: | Corvidae (Crows & Jays) | | Area: | Crater Lake National Park, Oregon | | Date: | August 14, 2012 | 
This is a raucous and gregarious jay of the high mountains that collects pine nuts and shores them in caches for winter. | 
| | Reference: | Birds of Oregon by Burrows & Gilligan / National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America by Dunn & Alderfer |
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