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Alpine Chough – Alpendohle
Alpine Chough – Alpendohle, originally uploaded by floecky.
The Alpine Chough, or Yellow-billed Chough, (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China, and it [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2010 under Alpendohle, Alpine Chough, chough, corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, Pyrrhocorax graculus, Yellow-billed Chough.
Tags: Alpendohle, Alpine Chough, Pyrrhocorax graculus, Yellow-billed Chough
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Cornish Chough
I’ve written about the choughs before (a detailed post about the red-billed chough, also known as the cornish chough here and The Cornish Chough poem by John Harris here) but I want to share with you these amazing photos by Andrew Green (http://www.flickr.com/photos/polandeze/).
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under chough, cornish chough, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Red-billed Chough.
Tags: chough, cornish chough, cornish chough photos, photographs, photos of the cornish chough, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Red-billed Chough
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Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
The Red-billed Chough is a popular bird in the corvidae family.
The Red-billed Chough or Chough (pronounced chuff), Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family; it is one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from Ireland and Great Britain east through southern Europe [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under chough, Culture, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Red-billed Chough, stamp.
Tags: chough, corvid, Corvidae, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, red-bill chough, Red-billed Chough, red-billed chuff, redbill chough, redbilled chough, redbilled chuff
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The Cornish Chough (poem) by John Harris
THE CORNISH CHOUGH. WHERE not a sound is heard
But the white waves, O bird,
And slippery rocks fling back the vanquish’d sea,
Thou soarest in thy pride,
Not heeding storm or tide;
In Freedom’s temple nothing is more free.
‘T is pleasant by this stone,
Sea-wash’d and weed-o’ergrown,
With Solitude and Silence at my side,
To list the solemn roar
Of [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2009 under chough, cornish chough, poem, poetry.
Tags: chough poem, chough poetry, choughs, cornish chough, corvid poem, corvid poetry, John Harris, poem, poems about choughs, poems about corvids
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