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The diet includes the nuts and seeds from pine trees, spruce and hazel trees. It also takes insects, birds' eggs and nestlings, digging out bumble bee and wasp nests to take the grubs.
The diet includes the nuts and seeds from pine trees, spruce and hazel trees. It also takes insects, birds' eggs and nestlings, digging out bumble bee and wasp nests to take the grubs.
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The nest is usually built high in a conifer. 2-4 eggs are laid and incubated for 18 days. Both sexes feed the young which are usually fledged by about 23 days. <sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>
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The nest is usually built high in a conifer. 2-4 eggs are laid and incubated for 18 days. Both sexes feed the young which are usually fledged by about 23 days.
Several subspecies. Multipunctata and hemispila from the Western Himalayas are sometimes split as Larger-spotted Nutcracker, Nucifraga multipunctata.
Habitat
Taiga conifer forests.
Behaviour
The diet includes the nuts and seeds from pine trees, spruce and hazel trees. It also takes insects, birds' eggs and nestlings, digging out bumble bee and wasp nests to take the grubs.
The nest is usually built high in a conifer. 2-4 eggs are laid and incubated for 18 days. Both sexes feed the young which are usually fledged by about 23 days.
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