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A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
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chough
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n. 1 Two species of bird of the genus ''Pyrrhocorax'' in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia. 2 The (vern white-winged chough pedia=1), of genus ''Corcorax'' in the Australian mud-nest builders ...
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Two species of chough ( "") constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds . These are the red-billed chough ( Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax ), and the Alpine or yellow-billed chough ( P. graculus ). The white-winged chough of Australia, ...
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n. a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
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Chough \Chough\, n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ce['o]; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. ch[=a]ha; perh. akin to E. caw. [root]22. Cf. Caddow .] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the Crow family ( Fregilus graculus ) of Europe. It is of a black color, with ...
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My College fellows were hawkers, tinkers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows.
Poplars and alders ever quivering played, And nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade, On whose high branches, waving with the storm, The birds of broadest wing their mansions form The chough, the sea-mew, the loquacious crow And scream aloft and skim the deeps below.
Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Over by the Berghaus, the Schneefinken, and Schneevogel, the snow-finches and Alpine choughs, that lived on the crumbs and left-overs of the picnickers, were fluttering and swooping close round the building - a sure storm-warning.
She found it easier this time, and there was the chough, with her in her own world, perching on a branch that hung low over the pavement.
For some time he contemplated the birds: a few razorbills and guillemots as well as the puffins - remarkably few gulls of any kind - the oyster-catchers' parents (he was confident of the chicks' well-being, having seen the neat shells from which they had hatched) - some rock-doves, and a small band of choughs.
When they opened their wingcases and became airborne, the choughs swooped to snatch them instead.