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Pyrrhocorax

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the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

From Middle English choughe, choȝe, coo, cheo, from Old English ċēo (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ċeahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).

Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).

chough (plural choughs)

Either of 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.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
  For parot is no churlish Chowgh, nor no flekyd pye
  Parrot is no pendugum, that men call a carlyng
  Parrot is no woodecocke, nor no butterfly
  Parrot is no stameryng stare, y^t men call a starlyng
  But Parot is my owne dere harte, & my dere derlĩg
The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
Synonym: hermit-crow

bird of Pyrrhocorax

Asturian: choya (ast), chova (ast), cuerva (ast), graya (ast)
Bulgarian: червенокрака гарга f (červenokraka garga)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山鴉／山鸦 (shānyā)
Cornish: chogha m, palores f
Czech: kavče n
Esperanto: pirokorako
Finnish: alppivaris (fi)
French: crave (fr)
Galician: choia (gl) f
German: Bergkrähe (de) f
Hungarian: csóka (hu)
Irish: cág cosdearg m
Italian: gracchio (it) m
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قاژوومەڕە (qajûmerre)
Persian: زاغ (fa) (zâğ)
Polish: wrończyk m
Portuguese: gralha (pt) f
Russian: клу́шица (ru) f (klúšica)
Spanish: chova f
Swedish: alpkråkor (sv) c pl (common name for the genus), alpkaja (sv) c (Pyrrhocorax graculus), alpkråka (sv) c (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Welsh: brân Gernyw f, brân goesgoch f

white-winged chough