Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Corvidæ, typical of the Pyrrhocoracinæ; the choughs.
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Three Palaearctic species, golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) breed in the Bale Mountains, their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone.
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Over 50 resident and 30 migrant species have been recorded and include one pair of breeding chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus.
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It feeds on very hard fruits, like the nutcracker* and the pyrrhocorax.
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They are the same kind which are found in Switzerland among the Alps, and which Pliny pretended were peculiar to those mountains, and calls the _pyrrhocorax_.
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696
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Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Source: Eaglenest Biodiversity Project)
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It also has the horribly shrill cry of the latter.) and the pyrrhocorax.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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