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Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Red-billed Chough)

Synonyms: Coracia pyrrhocorax; Fregilus graculus; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax erythroramphus; Upupa pyrrhocorax (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (/ˈtʃʌf/ CHUFF) (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 and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China.
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Infraspecies

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax baileyi
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax brachypus
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax centralis
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax docilis
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax erythroramphos
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax himalayanus
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.6546
EDGE Score: 2.68475
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  321 grams
Birth Weight [1]  16 grams
Female Weight [5]  263 grams
Male Weight [5]  312 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  18.6 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Scavenger [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  70 %
Clutch Size [7]  4
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [3]  35 days
Incubation [6]  17 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  15 inches (38 cm)
Wing Span [6]  32 inches (.82 m)
Female Maturity [4]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Fry, CH, S. Keith, and EK Urban. 2000. The birds of Africa. Volume VI. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA
♦ 6British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0