Archive for 'Red-billed Chough'

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/).
 
 
 
 

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 [...]