Chough

Share Top Five November 12, 2018

There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae family of birds. These are the red-billed chough, and the Alpine chough (or Yellow-billed chough) (Pyrrhocorax graculus). The white-winged chough of Australia, despite its name, is not a true chough but rather a member of the family Corcoracidaeand only distantly related,more info:wiki

Below are photos and Images you may like:

#10 Chough Bird Close Up – Cornish Choughs,more info:Paul Dinning

#9 RED-BILLED CHOUGH,more info:findingnature

#8 Chough report: April 2017,more info:birdsontheedge

April started on a tragic low note progressing, the only way it could, into a steady crescendo to a high and hopeful cadence. In fact, April started as it always does with April Fool’s Day. So when an email entitled ‘chough vs. peregrine’ was opened on the 2nd, wishful thinking wanted to dismiss this as a delayed prank.

The email was from Mick Dryden and Romano da Costa, two of Jersey’s top birders, who had been out at Sorel Point doing a migration count.

Mick described observing “an immature peregrine fly onto the cliff with a black bird in its talons. We both thought it was the remains of a chough. The peregrine was hassled by gulls and flew off west, but dropped the bird in the sea where a greater black-backed gull performed the last rites. I had the scope on it distantly and think I could see red legs very briefly, possibly also a ring which may have been green. So if you are short of a chough, you know why!”