Crows (Corvidae)
Yellow-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) - HBW 14, p. 615
French: Chocard à bec jaune
German: Alpendohle
Spanish: Chova Piquigualda
Other common names: Alpine Chough
Taxonomy: Corvus Graculus Linnaeus, 1766, Swiss Alps, Switzerland.
Hybrids with P. pyrrhocorax very rarely reported. Geographical variation slight; some authorities consider that forsythi should be absorbed within digitatus. Three subspecies tentatively recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- graculus ( Linnaeus, 1766) - Morocco (Rif and Atlas ranges), Spain (Cantabrian Mts, Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada), Corsica, throughout Alps, NC Italy (Apennines), and E through former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece (including Crete), W Bulgaria and S & E Turkey to Caucasus region and N Iran.
- digitatus Ehrenberg, 1833 - SE Turkey, S to Lebanon and Mt Hermon, E across N Iraq to SW Iran (Zagros Mts).
- forsythi Stoliczka, 1874 - C Asia from C & N Afghanistan NE through Pamirs and patchily on through Tien Shan and Altai to Sayan Mts and, in S, from WC & N Pakistan (including isolated population in N Baluchistan) E in Himalayas to Nepal, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, and C & SW China.
- Least Concern
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A bird walking on the ground and feeding Rax-Alpe, Lower Austria, Austria (ssp graculus)
Helmut Schenkel Br... 30 September 2007 2 years ago 32 sec 4.2 -
A bird feeding on a grassland Oukaïmden, Morocco (ssp graculus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 May 2006 3 years ago 16 sec 3.6 -
A group in a grassland, foraging Oukaïmden, Morocco (ssp graculus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 May 2006 3 years ago 28 sec 3.6 -
A bird foraging and a second individual landing next to it Oukaïmeden, Morocco (ssp graculus)
Christian Dortu 29 February 2008 2 years ago 29 sec 3.5 -
A bird feeding another one besides a Red-billed Chough Oukaïmden, Morocco (ssp graculus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 May 2006 3 years ago 29 sec 3.5 -
A bird looking for food Langtang Village, Langtang National Park, Nepal (ssp digitatus)
John Gregory 1998 2 years ago 16 sec 3.4
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Two birds in the edge of a rocky crag. Picos de Europa, León, Castile and Leon, Spain
JLamarca 23 August 2007 1 year ago 4 -
An adult on a rock Italy
Franck Renard 23 October 2008 1 year ago 4
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Two typical calls. Mont Blanc Massif, Rhône-Alpes, France
(ssp graculus)
Julien Rochefort 14 August 2009 39 weeks ago 4
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