With a long, dagger-like bill, I always suspected these birds as being dangerous to smaller ones though I hadn’t read anywhere that they will kill other birds, only feed on carrion. But on Saturday, I witnessed a Clark’s Nutcracker catch and kill a pine grosbeak. It caught it with it’s claws, taking it to the ground, where it used it’s sharp bill as a dagger and stabbed the grosbeak until it was dead. Then it began to eat it. I was kind of surprised. Clark’s Nutcrackers are members of the corvid family which includes ravens, crows, jays, and nutcrackers. Given that other members of the corvid family are known to kill and eat other birds, especially young still in nests, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by what I witnessed.