I encountered this Clark's Nutcracker on the road.
Clark's Nutcracker a medium-sized bird with a long, sharp bill.
They live in the open conifer forests of southwestern Canada at elevations between 900 and 3500 meters. They are often seen in pine forests with a water source nearby.
In the fall, nutcrackers move to lower elevations in forests where seeds are especially abundant. Clark's nutcrackers have an excellent spatial memory that allows them to collect up to 30,000 seeds in the fall and retrieve a large portion of them in the winter. Thanks to these large seed stores, the Clark's nutcracker can live at high elevations year-round.
It is very bold around humans and often comes into populated hiking and camping areas to scavenge or beg for food. Nutcrackers are almost always in groups, except when gathering seeds.