Clark's Nutcracker Photo Gallery

Jay-sized bird with a long daggerlike bill and a short tail. Dark gray overall with black wings and white undertail coverts.

In flight its white outer tail feathers are noticeable and distinctive. Also note white trailing edge on the secondaries.

Uses its long, sharp bill to dig into pine cones and extract the seeds. Buries large numbers of seeds to use as winter food.

Hefty bird of evergreen forests with a long, slightly curved, sharply pointed bill. Gray overall with black wings.

Uses its sharp bill to extract seeds from pine cones.

Gray overall, sometimes with a paler face, and black wings. Note the daggerlike bill.

Found in higher elevation evergreen forests in western North America, especially those with whitebark and limber pine.