Adult © Ricardo Salgueiro eBird S31772869 Macaulay Library ML 37105181
Adult © Otto Samwald
Juvenil © Pavel Parkhaev
Adult © Christoph Moning
Adult © Houman Doroudi
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© Steve Kelling

Alpekrage Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

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Identification

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Large black crow relative with a slender, curved red bill. Found in pairs or groups around cliffs and in adjacent grassy pastures, grasslands, and fields. Flight acrobatic, wheeling and swooping in updrafts. Distinctive if seen well, with bright red bill and legs. Juvenile has a shorter, yellowish bill—compare with Yellow-billed Chough. Often shares its range with other dark corvids, such as crows and jackdaws; in flight, present species’ broad, deeply fingered wings. Gives a variety of calls, including a loud “chaw!”, as well as higher-pitched gull-like mewing calls.

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