#1135 · 🐦 birds

Red-billed Chough

🇳🇱 Alpenkraai ·Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pavel Shukov · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Lionel CASSET · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paul Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © simben · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Allan Hopkins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Jean-Jacques Boujot · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Paul Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The red-billed chough , Cornish chough or simply chough (/ˈtʃʌf/ CHUFF ) ( Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax ), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax . Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,915iNaturalist observations
weight 312 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
10,915 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 312 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).