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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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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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