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choughBird Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax of the crow family, Corvidae, order Passeriformes, about 38 cm/15 in long, black-feathered, with red bill and legs, and long hooked claws. Choughs are frugivorous and insectivorous. They make mud-walled nests and live on sea cliffs and mountains from Europe to East Asia, but are now rare. The alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus is similar, but has a shorter yellow bill and is found up to the snowline in mountains from the Pyrenees to Central Asia. |
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I also rather enjoyed going to my OED to look up such arcane words as chough, becket, feoffment, eftsoons, advowsons, and mumpsimus. ``The CEA is asking lower-income homeowners to subsidize the exposure of wealthy homeowners,'' said Genie Chough of the San Francisco-based Greenlining Institute, a coalition of 30 nonprofit, multiethnic organizations. We thank John Chough for his tireless efforts during the formative period of the Company," commented Mr. |
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