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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Corvidae — the choughs.

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Examples

  • Three Palaearctic species, golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) breed in the Bale Mountains, their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone.

    Ethiopian montane moorlands 2008

  • Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus.

    Pirin National Park, Bulgaria 2008

  • Over 50 resident and 30 migrant species have been recorded and include one pair of breeding chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus.

    Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, United Kingdom 2008

  • (_Pyrrhocorax alpinus_), are found in the Himalayas; but he who would see them must either ascend nearly to the snow-line or remain on in the hills during the winter.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Source: Eaglenest Biodiversity Project)

    Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, United Kingdom 2008

  • [* Corvus Pyrrhocorax.] [* Corvus caryocatactes, C. glandarius.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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