chough

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 Students
Whether the European Chough should not form a distinct genus is a matter of opinion.
The History of the European Fauna|R. F. Scharff
According to them he alone is responsible for the disappearance of his distinguished relation, the chough.
Birds in Town and Village|W. H. Hudson
But 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. Hudson

Not 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

chough

/ (tʃʌf) /

noun

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

Word Origin for chough

C14: of uncertain origin; probably related to Old French cauwe, Old English cēo

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