Nutcracker
in ornithology, the genus Nucifraga, and especially N. caryocatactes, common in southern Europe, a visitor to the N. portions of the Continent; flocks have been seen in Switzerland. They feed on the seeds of pine and beech, and on nuts, which they fix in some convenient crevice and hammer with the beak till the kernel is exposed.
The plumage is of different shades of brown, studded with long white spots.
Clark's nutcracker is N. columbiana.