nutcracker
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- noun
- /ˈnʌtˌkrækər/
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nucifraga
- Fewer birds to disperse seeds means less regrowth in high-elevation clearings, a lowered tree line, and ultimately less food and habitat for nutcrackers, squirrels, and bears.
Examples
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Tomback, one of the first to document the pine-and-nutcracker connection, fears that the birds may not stick around as the nut crops falter.
Academic text (1998) -
I don't see any wildlife except for ravens and a Clark's nutcracker.
Blog text (5) -
The Nutcracker.
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Anyone who's worked a few years of The Nutcracker soon grows tired of the music and its trappings.
Academic text (2008) -
Clark's nutcracker.
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Nutcrackers even feed the highly nutritious pine seeds to their nestlings, which are born in early spring.
Academic text (1998) -
It's one of a type of bird that's in a particular family that includes the crows, Ravens, Magpies, Jays, nutcrackers, quite a diversity.
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Listen and you'll hear small mammals scurrying on the forest floor, ravens cawing, and Clark's nutcrackers swooping close by to see if there's any available food.
Blog text (30) -
Clark's nutcracker is known for its distinctive call and ability to forage for food in pine forests.
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I spotted several nutcrackers hopping among the trees, searching for nuts to eat.
Synonyms
A bird in the crow family that cracks open and stores nuts
A bird like a small crow that cracks and stores nuts
A large dark brown bird like a crow that eats seeds from pine cones
A grey and black mountain bird like a crow that eats and keeps pine seeds
A mountain bird in western North America that stores pine seeds
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nutcracker is also the name of a bird and it is named the same way: from nut and cracker because the bird 'cracks' open nuts with its strong bill and often stores them for winter. That's why the bird is called a nutcracker.