Red-billed Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax - Crave à bec rouge

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Passeriformes

  • Family
    :

    Corvidés

  • Genus
    :

    Pyrrhocorax

  • Species
    :

    pyrrhocorax

Descriptor

Linnaeus, 1758

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 41 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 76 à 80 cm.
  • Weight
    : 280 à 360 g
Longevity

14 years

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Crave à bec rouge
adult plum. breeding
Crave à bec rouge
First year

Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) is a species of bird in the Corvidae family.

Subspecific information 8 subspecies

  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (British Isles)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax erythroramphos (Iberian Pen. to Switzerland and n Italy)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus (nw Africa and Canary Is.)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax docilis (se Europe to Afghanistan and Pakistan)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax centralis (c Asia)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax himalayanus (Himalayas, n India and w China)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax brachypus (ne and e China)
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax baileyi (n and c Ethiopia)

Foreign names

  • Crave à bec rouge,
  • Chova piquirroja,
  • gralha-de-bico-vermelho,
  • Alpenkrähe,
  • havasi varjú,
  • Alpenkraai,
  • Gracchio corallino,
  • alpkråka,
  • Alpekråke,
  • čavka červenozobá,
  • kavče červenozobé,
  • Alpekrage,
  • alppivaris,
  • gralla de bec vermell,
  • Bjargkorpungur,
  • wrończyk (zwyczajny),
  • Alpu vārna,
  • planinska vrana,
  • Клушица,
  • ベニハシガラス,
  • 红嘴山鸦,
  • 紅嘴山鴉,

Voice song and cries

Crave à bec rouge
adult

Habitat

Crave à bec rouge
adult

Shrubland : Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation ; Grassland : Temperate ; Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks) : ; Marine Intertidal : Rocky Shoreline, Tidepools ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Pastureland

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

QRcode Crave à bec rouge
published: - Updated: 11-11-2008
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