Editing Clark's nutcracker (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Clark's nutcracker
| image = Nucifraga columbiana1.jpg
| image_caption = In [[Deschutes National Forest]]
| image2 = Clark's Nutcracker Yosemite National Park.ogg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Nucifraga columbiana'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22705909A130407851 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22705909A130407851.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Nucifraga
| species = columbiana
| authority = ([[Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|Wilson]], 1811)
| range_map = Nucifraga columbiana map.svg
}}

'''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 nut]]s, 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 (explorer)|William Clark]] first observing it in 1805 along the banks of the [[Salmon River (Washington)|Salmon River]], a tributary of the [[Columbia River]].