Eurasian Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes Scientific name definitions
- Names (44)
- Subspecies (9)
Steve Madge, Josep del Hoyo, David Christie, Nigel Collar, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 10, 2018
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 10, 2018
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Boçethyesi |
| Asturian | Frayanueces euroasiáticu |
| Azerbaijani | Cəvizqıran |
| Basque | Intxaurjalea |
| Bulgarian | Сокерица |
| Catalan | Trencanous eurasiàtic |
| Chinese | 星鴉 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 星鸦 |
| Croatian | kreja |
| Czech | ořešník kropenatý |
| Danish | Nøddekrige |
| Dutch | Notenkraker |
| English | Eurasian Nutcracker |
| English (India) | Eurasian Nutcracker (Spotted Nutcracker) |
| English (UK) | Spotted Nutcracker |
| English (United States) | Eurasian Nutcracker |
| Finnish | pähkinähakki |
| French | Cassenoix moucheté |
| French (French Guiana) | Cassenoix moucheté |
| Galician | Quebranoces |
| German | Tannenhäher |
| Greek | Καρυοθραύστης |
| Hungarian | Fenyőszajkó |
| Icelandic | Hnotbrjótur |
| Italian | Nocciolaia |
| Japanese | ホシガラス |
| Korean | 잣까마귀 |
| Latvian | Riekstrozis |
| Lithuanian | Riešutinė |
| Mongolian | Самарч шаазгай |
| Norwegian | nøttekråke |
| Persian | فندق شکن |
| Polish | orzechówka |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Quebra-nozes |
| Romanian | Alunar |
| Russian | Кедровка |
| Serbian | Lešnikara |
| Slovak | orešnica perlavá |
| Slovenian | Krekovt |
| Spanish | Cascanueces Común |
| Spanish (Spain) | Cascanueces común |
| Swedish | nötkråka |
| Turkish | Göknar Kargası |
| Ukrainian | Горіхівка крапчаста |
Nucifraga caryocatactes (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Corvus Caryocatactes
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae ed.10 1, p.106.
TYPE LOCALITY:
'Europa;' restricted to Sweden by Hartert (1903, Vog. pal. Fauna, 1, p. 25).
Definitions
- NUCIFRAGA
- nucifraga
- caryocatactes
- Caryocatactes
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
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Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Eurasian Nutcracker