Southern Nutcracker

The southern nutcracker is a crow-family bird about 33 cm long, similar in size to the northern nutcracker. It was formerly considered conspecific with the northern nutcracker and the Kashmir nutcracker under the name spotted nutcracker. It is largely brown with limited white spotting on the face and upper breast, a plain brown lower breast and back, unmarked black wings and a white lower belly and undertail coverts, whereas the northern and Kashmir nutcrackers have extensive, larger white spots on the entire breast and back (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no range, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird that eats plants and seeds, with a Moderate range of about 52,300 km² (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).