🦉 The spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker, or just nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos)
- Nucifraga Latin: nux - walnut, frangere - to smash, crush
- caryocatactes Greek: karyon - walnut, katagnumi - crush
- macrorhynchos Greek: macros large, long, rhynkhos beak
I have not seen these birds anywhere in any forest near my city, only outside it, in a wild coniferous forest. This is no wonder, because this bird feeds mainly on pine nuts, which actually grow in coniferous forests.
Moreover, this bird is also very useful for the forest, because it buries uneaten nuts in the ground, and they then sprout there. This is how the forest reproduces.
This bird in the photo was doing just that. She hid the nuts in the ground behind a fallen log. After that, she flew up a tree and began to clean her feathers.
Her voice is a typical corvid, a croak, but a little more buzzy.
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Nikon D5200 | Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD |