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chough::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | corvine bird |
Examples of chough
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Fossils of both chough species were found in the mountains of the Canary Islands.
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Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough.
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In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall.
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Where the two chough species occur together, there is only limited competition for food.
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From a distance, it might be confused with a Rook, or its silhouette in flight a pigeon or chough.
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Five per cent of the UK's population of the chough, a small crow with a curved red bill, is found on Llyn.
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Chough A member of crow family with a curved red bill and red legs, it has a distinctive kee-aw call.
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Up more steps, by the lead water tank dated 1784, and inside the carved archway, a red-legged chough features on a coat of arms.
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The rare chough is also an occasional visitor along this coast, though unfortunately numbers have declined in recent years.
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- A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
- Two species of chough constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), and the Alpine or Yellow-billed Chough (P. graculus). Their closest relatives outside the genus appear to be the jackdaws of the genus Corvus. ...
- Two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia; A monotypic bird genus in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands
- A bird believed to be a tattler (Wife 232).
