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Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

About Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Perching Birds
  • Family: Jays and Crows

The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China.

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  • 2011-01-13
    Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
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  • 2011-01-20
    Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
  • 2025-01-23
    Gorgas de San Julian, Spain
  • 2025-01-24
    Salto de Roldan, Spain
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  • 2025-02-19
    Oukaimeden, Morocco
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