THE CREAGRUS
CALIFORNIA LIST
A personal
portfolio
all photos & text by Don Roberson
all photos taken in California
CLARK'S NUTCRACKER Nucifraga columbiana
11 July 1981 at Olmstead Pt., Yosemite NP, MRP
The CLARK'S NUTCRACKER is a common resident of alpine country
at high elevations throughout the mountains of the state. It is a resident
on mountains above 8000' but moves downslope in winter. There are sporadic
and unpredictable incursions into the low deserts or toward the coast in
some years; occasionally many birds are involved.
Most of my California records have been of birds within their usual
range but I list my "state bird" and all the coastal incursion vagrants
below. Those preceded by H
were
vagrants found or co-found by me personally:
8/1/70 Pinecrest camp ED my state
bird
11/23/86 Jacks Peak MTY typed description
10/21/96 Jacks Peak MTY 3 at E
peak; brief details in my notes
H 10/23/96 Cone Peak MTY
at least 7; some photo’d distantly
See the family page for county abbreviations. All photos & text ©
2001 Don Roberson; all rights reserved.
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web site is not a submission to review organizations, including,
but not limited to, the California Bird Records Committee of Western Field
Ornithologists. However, blanket permission for use of descriptions by
North
American Birds editors in their research is granted, and serious researchers
in general are granted permission to use the records cited herein.
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