Clark's Nutcracker, Bird of the West

On August 22, 1805, near present-day Kamiah, Idaho, Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition first found the bird that today bears his name: the Clark’s Nutcracker. The Clark’s Nutcracker lives in symbiosis with whitebark pines. These nutcrackers need pine seeds to live, and whitebark pines rely on nutcrackers to plant their seeds to propagate new pines. Learn more about this corvid’s caches at Cornell's AllAboutBirds.

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