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Red-billed Chough

(Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Alternate name(s): "Chough", "Cornish Chough"
German name(s): "Alpenkrähe"

Size: 37-39 cm; wing span 75-85 cm
Weight: 190-250 g

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Red-billed Chough at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

Race "pyrrhocorax"

This race is also called the "Cornish Chough".

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"

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]

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]

Behaviour

Red-billed Choughs can appear in substantial flocks (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, October 2020]

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