Red-billed chough: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the red-billed chough lives – recorded in 27 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Group	Crows, jays & magpies
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	27 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	312 g (male organism, adult weight); 263 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Corvidae

Where does the red-billed chough live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the red-billed chough in 27 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a red-billed chough?

Wikidata records the following for the red-billed chough: mass 312 g (male organism, adult weight); 263 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the red-billed chough endangered?

The red-billed chough’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the red-billed chough?

The red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Corvidae, genus Pyrrhocorax. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the red-billed chough

The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough ( CHUF; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe, North Africa and Middle East to Central Asia, India and China.

This bird has glossy black plumage, a long curved red bill, red legs, and a loud, ringing call. It has a buoyant acrobatic flight with widely spread primaries. The red-billed chough pairs for life and displays fidelity to its breeding site, which is usually a cave or crevice in a cliff face. It builds a wool-lined stick nest and lays three eggs. It feeds, often in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Red-billed chough (revision 1381125531), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q643836 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).