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 LC    Yellow-billed Chough* Id (Atlas):
    Pyrrhocorax graculus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Chough, Alpine Chough

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
38 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Temperate grassland, urban areas, pastureland. From 1,260 - 5,000 m, occasionally 600 - 8,235 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Albania (B), Andorra (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (NB), China (mainland), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), France (B) (NB), Georgia (B), Germany (B), Greece (B) (NB), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Israel (B), Italy (B) (NB), Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon (B), Liechtenstein (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B), Slovenia (B) (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Switzerland (B) (NB), Tajikistan (B), Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan (B), Uzbekistan (B).

Vagrant to Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Syrian Arab Republic.

Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 - 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (167)...)

 
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) [XC587355]
     by Pascal Christe from L\u00e9es-Athas, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (call, flight call)

 
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) [XC813634]
     by Christian Brinkman from Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan (call)

Subspecies
Hybrids with Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) very rarely reported. Geographical variation slight and some authorities consider that forsythi should be absorbed within digitatus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • graculus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Morocco (Rif and Atlas ranges), Spain (Cantabrian Mts, Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada), Corsica, throughout Alps, north-central Italy (Apennines), and east through former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece (including Crete), western Bulgaria and southern and eastern Turkey to Caucasus region and northern Iran.
  • digitatus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833   -  South-eastern Turkey, south to Lebanon and Mt Hermon, eastern across northern Iraq to south-western Iran (Zagros Mts).
  • forsythi Stoliczka, 1874   -  Central Asia from central and northern Afghanistan Neast through Pamirs and patchily on through Tien Shan and Altai to Sayan Mts and, in south, from west-central and northern Pakistan (including isolated population in northern Baluchistan) eastern in Himalayas to Nepal, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, and central and south-western China.



References
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Files:
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