chough
chough/CHəf/
noun
a black Eurasian and North African bird of the crow family, with a down-curved bill and broad rounded wings, typically frequenting mountains and sea cliffs.
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The choughs have black plumage and brightly coloured legs, feet, and bills, and are resident in the mountains of southern Eurasia and North Africa. They have ...
Chough
Birds
There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae family of birds. These are the red-billed chough, and the Alpine chough. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Pyrrhocorax
Collective noun: chattering and clattering
Family: Corvidae
Class: Aves
Genus: Pyrrhocorax; Tunstall, 1771
Phylum: Chordata
Lower classifications
It is found only on the west of the British Isles. It's a master flier and readily shows off its skills with dramatic aerial displays of diving and swooping.
Large black crow relative with a slender, curved red bill. Found in pairs or groups around cliffs and in adjacent grassy pastures, grasslands, and fields.
The meaning of CHOUGH is either of two Old World birds (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and P. graculus) that are related to the crows and have red legs and glossy ...
Conspicuous, social, and noisy inhabitant of high mountains. Feeds mostly on insects in summer and berries, seeds, and food waste in winter, ...
Noun edit · Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of ...
Slimmer and more acrobatic than most of the crow family, Chough can be found in western rocky landscapes, from seacliffs to the mountains of Eryri.
The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) is one of only two surviving members of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the ...
graculus), of high mountains from Morocco and Spain to the Himalayas. Both are about 38 cm (15 inches) long and glossy blue-black; the former is red-billed, the ...
Nov 10, 2023 · The white-winged chough is one of the weirder birds out there.