choughs

In calling the choughs "russet-pated" he makes the bill tinge the whole head, or perhaps gives the effect of the birds 'markings when seen at a distance; the bill is red, the head is black.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

Above him, their nesting grounds disturbed by the hikers, gray fulmars and red-billed choughs rode the wind in great wide circles.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

Above him, their nesting grounds disturbed by the hikers, gray fulmars and red-billed choughs rode the wind in great wide circles.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

The rising sun threw golden shafts on gulls and choughs as they took wing, and on the wet, curious faces of three young seals cavorting in the waves beyond the harbor rocks.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

The rising sun threw golden shafts on gulls and choughs as they took wing, and on the wet, curious faces of three young seals cavorting in the waves beyond the harbor rocks.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

Behind it, tumbling blackly and brilliantly off the high ridge of the eastern side of Bardsey, was a gang of choughs, rarest and most buoyant of all the crows, mopping at the sky.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

We spotted our first marmot of the trip and we had heard choughs all day and now saw a group of 5 or 6 harrying a much bigger raptor.

Day 2 – Chalets du Truc – Croix de Bonhomme 2009

Below them from the Gull-rock rose a thousand birds, and filled the air with sound; the choughs cackled, the hacklets wailed, the great blackbacks laughed querulous defiance at the intruders, and a single falcon, with an angry bark, dashed out from beneath their feet, and hung poised high aloft, watching the sea-fowl which swung slowly round and round below.

Westward Ho! 2007

The rufous bettongs were out in force every night, and the white-winged choughs flew down to keep an eye on us wherever we worked.

Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

The rufous bettongs were out in force every night, and the white-winged choughs flew down to keep an eye on us wherever we worked.

Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007