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Red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Subject: Red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
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Red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)


Illustration of a Red-billed Chough taken from;
Rev. Francis Orpen Morris (1864) A History of British Birds. Volume 2, Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Way, London, pp. 27
Date 1862 (publication date)
Source https://archive.org/stream/historyofbritish02morr#page/n49/mode/2up
Author Rev. F. O. Morris
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyrrhocorax_pyrrhocorax_-drawing_-F_O_Morris-1862.jpg

The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. The red-billed choughs 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. Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax has glossy black plumage, a long curved red bill, red legs, and a loud, ringing call.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Pyrrhocorax
Species: Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
- Upupa pyrrhocorax Linnaeus, 1758
- Corvus pyrrhocorax Linnaeus, 1766

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