chough
any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.
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Scientists have found piles of chough bones in some caves visited by Neandertals.
Researchers role-played as Neandertals to learn how they hunted birds | Trishla Ostwal | November 12, 2021 | Science News For StudentsWhether the European chough should not form a distinct genus is a matter of opinion.
The History of the European Fauna | R. F. ScharffAccording to them he alone is responsible for the disappearance of his distinguished relation, the chough.
Birds in Town and Village | W. H. HudsonBut of the chough in captivity or as a domesticated bird we know little now, as no records have been preserved.
Birds in Town and Village | W. H. HudsonNot many years since, the chough was far from uncommon in several parts of the coast of Devon and Cornwall.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. Johns
Mr. Lemon had a favourite tame Cornish chough that would always obey his call.
Cornish Characters | S. Baring-Gould
British Dictionary definitions for chough
/ (tʃʌf) /
a large black passerine bird, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a long downward-curving red bill: family Corvidae (crows)
alpine chough a smaller related bird, Pyrrhocorax graculus, with a shorter yellow bill
Origin of chough
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