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Lower slopes of mountain at 1,000 metres ASL.
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.
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus ...
taken at a climbing tour
The alpine chough is an acrobatic yellow-billed member of the Corvidae which ...
Slender black bird with glossy plumage and somewhat like a pigeon in build, ...
Unknown bird. Completely dark black, except the red beak.
Slender, black coloured bird with a body shape like that of a slim pigeon ...
Spotted this guy at a good 3000m on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. ...
Despite signs that asked people not to feed the birds, someone always does... ...
Alpine choughs have adapted themselves to these high altitude habitats...took ...
The bird lives in large groups of more than 20 to 30 individuals and forages in ...
Also known as Red-billed or Cornish Chough, this beautiful noisy bird belong to ...
A small group of these flew by. Some appear to have pale patches below the ...
many coughs flew around the refuge, sometimes resting on the rocky cliff ...
Alpine chough / yellow-billed chough Chocard à bec jaune
Alpine chough / yellow-billed chough Chocard à bec jaune
All black plumage. Reddish legs. Yellow bill. Slim build.
As you climb higher and higher in the Himalayas you see very few birds. But no ...
As we were climbing on to the glacier Blange in the south of France, we were ...
The adult of the nominate subspecies of the Alpine chough has glossy black ...