FAMILY Picidce 



uttering a harsh karr\ kar'rr' as it goes. 

 Mountain climbers report it as a very tame 

 bird, following along in the trees as they toil 

 upward, and visiting camp on occasion, to 

 pick up what it can for food. It is reported to 

 be a sly rascal about these mountain camps 

 and is in habits a first cousin to that other 

 little rascal in feathers, the Oregon jay. The 

 Clarke nutcracker builds a bulky nest in 

 evergreen trees often when the snow is still on 

 the ground. Its food in winter is mainly pine 

 nuts which are hammered from the cones 

 with much labor. In summer it feeds mainly 

 on insects, beetles, grasshoppers and various 

 wild fruits. 



FAMILY PICIDM: WOODPECKERS 



Red-shafted flicker, Colaptes cafer 

 collaris, 13.25 



Distribution: Western United States and 

 southw^estern British Provinces (except coast 

 district from northern California northward), 

 east to the Great Plains, and south to Mexico. 

 The northwestern flicker, a closely allied spe- 

 cies, is found from northern California, north 

 to Alaska, west of the Coast Range Mountains. 

 The red-shafted flicker is so well known, 

 even to the most casual bird student, that any 

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