@clintonshepherd7068:
This is such a well done video. Major kudos to the people who put the video together and the artist who did the drawings
@marcypatterson-grudzien7563:
what a great short film/documentary !! A special shout out to Nate Olson, the illustrator, and everyone that made this a magical twenty minutes. The holiday ballet now has a cheeky new mascot….
@mtn.hermit:
I’m a fire lookout and spend countless hours every season watching the nutcrackers come and go…among other species. This is a fantastic and important story!
@Race2Extinct:
Clark’s nutcracker plants thousands of whitebark pines in a season. No human project can match that.
Lose the bird, lose the tree.
Lose the tree, lose the bird.
Ecosystems are relationships, not machines.
The Bird and The Tree 21:16 Min. by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Aug 14, 2025
From the Northern Rocky Mountains, to the Northern Sierras and Cascades, whitebark pine trees grow in some of the harshest and most spectacular mountain ecosystems of North America. These long-lived trees are impressive in many ways, but what’s most remarkable is that their entire existence depends on an ancient relationship with the bird that plants their seeds– the Clark’s Nutcracker. Conceived as a visitor’s center film for Yellowstone National Park, The Bird and The Tree tells the story of one of nature’s great duos and how two very different organisms have co-evolved to lead intertwined lives that support a diversity of life in some of North America’s most cherished landscapes..