Another bird from my new SBRM C&U4 set... the Southern Nutcracker. It is distributed from the Himalayas through Nepal and northern India into northern Myanmar, southern and central China and Taiwan. It occurs primarily in pine forests, with particular preference for Chinese white pine, blue pine, and other related pines. The seeds of which it caches and distributes in a manner similar to other nutcrackers. It will also use other conifers such as spruce in the event of cone crop failure in its preferred species. It forages on ground and in trees. Its distinct ridge inside base of mandible serves as an ideal nut-cracking tool. It also holds hard items under foot and hammers at them with bill.