Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Also known as Cornish Chough, Chough

Red-billed choughs perform breathtaking aerial acrobatics along windy coastal cliffs and high mountain pastures, riding thermals with exceptional agility. Pairs mate for life and maintain continuous territories, using their long, curved red bills to probe soil for subterranean insect larvae. Despite their vast Eurasian range, local populations remain vulnerable to changes in traditional livestock grazing that maintain their short-turf feeding grounds.