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Alpine Chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus graculus
47.2491, 9.34249
Field Notes
Description:
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus graculus) or Yellow-billed Chough on the Säntis, famous and highest mountain in the Alpstein massif in Appenzell, Switzerland.
It is the nominate form of the 2 subspecies of Pyrrhocorax. It is a closer relative to the Red-billed Cough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) than to the Jackdaw (Corvus monedula). They are excellent flyers and sometimes quite intrusive.
Habitat:
They usually live in the mountain regions in quite big colonies. During hard wintertime with most of the meadows covered with snow they will go to subjacent regions.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2012
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