Alpine Chough

Description:

Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus graculus) or Yellow-billed Chough on the Säntis, famous and highest mountain in the Alpstein massif in Appenzell, Switzerland. It is the nominate form of the 2 subspecies of Pyrrhocorax. It is a closer relative to the Red-billed Cough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) than to the Jackdaw (Corvus monedula). They are excellent flyers and sometimes quite intrusive.

Habitat:

They usually live in the mountain regions in quite big colonies. During hard wintertime with most of the meadows covered with snow they will go to subjacent regions.