Choughs
Pyrrhocorax
There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough ( /ˈtʃʌf/ "CHUFF") that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), 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 Corcoracidae and only distantly related.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
Yellow-billed Chough
speciesPyrrhocorax graculus
Red-billed Chough
speciesPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Pyrrhocorax graculus × pyrrhocorax
hybridPyrrhocorax graculus × pyrrhocorax
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8348.