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Alpine choughs have adapted themselves to ...
All black plumage. Reddish legs. Yellow bill. Slim build.
Despite signs that asked people not to feed the birds, someone always does... ...
Alpine chough / yellow-billed
Found at the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Slender black bird with glossy plumage and somewhat like a pigeon in build, ...
Slender, black coloured bird with a body shape like that of a slim pigeon ...
are seen in the wings giving the bird its name.
A flock of about 8
Foraging quite happy through the leaf litter, they had red eyes.
Sighted flock at Australian National Botanical Gardens, Canberra, ACT
Lower slopes of mountain at 1,000 metres ASL.
Alpine chough / yellow-billed
Sooty black all over, a white patch in middle of wings length 470mm sexes alike
go these Choughs will almost always be ...
The adult of the nominate subspecies of the Alpine
Family: Corcoracidae
Order: Passeriformes
The White-winged
The White-winged Chough is a large, almost ...
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus ...
many coughs flew around the refuge, sometimes resting on the rocky cliff ...
Spotted this guy at a good 3000m on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. ...
Airfield at 4,000' on moorland with scattered bushes adjacent to high mountains.
Airfield at 4,000' on moorland with scattered bushes adjacent to high mountains.
thermalling. Predators of the choughs ...
These guys hang out in family groups, stealing babies from neighbouring groups ...
The bird lives in large groups of more than 20 to 30 individuals and forages in ...
cannot see the shape of the bill but one maybe reddish. My best guess is
Unknown bird. Completely dark black, except the red beak.
Mid sized black bird. Very social. White patch in wing very obvious when in ...
This bird appears to have a bent down bill which gives the impression of either ...
and legs are black. Both male and female share the same plumage pattern." ...
