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Red-billed ChoughAlternate name(s): "Chough", "Cornish Chough" ![]() Size: 37-39 cm; wing span 75-85 cm Weight: 190-250 g |
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Race "pyrrhocorax"
This race is also called the "Cornish Chough".
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
Lateral view of two foraging Red-billed Choughs
(photo courtesy of C. Pears)
[Kynance Cove, Cornwall, England, UK, October 2013]
Race "erythropthalmus"
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
Frontal view of a Red-billed Chough
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2022]
Frontal view of a Red-billed Chough looking sideways
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2018]
Lateral view of a Red-billed Chough
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2019]
Lateral view of Red-billed Choughs
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2018]
Frontal view of a Red-billed Chough in flight
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2018]
Frontal/ventral view of a Red-billed Chough in flight;
click on photo to see a second bird
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2019]
Near-frontal/ventral view of a clan of Red-billed Choughs in flight
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2019]
Near-lateral/ventral view of a Red-billed Chough in flight
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2018]
Lateral/ventral view of a Red-billed Chough in flight
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2020]
Ventral view of a Red-billed Chough in flight
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2018]
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IMMATURE/JUVENILE |
Lateral/ventral view of a juvenile Red-billed Chough
in flight; note the yellowish-brown bill
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2019]
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Behaviour |
Red-billed Choughs can appear in substantial flocks
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2020]