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Yellow-billed Chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus
(P. g. graculus)
| Armenian Name: | Ալպիական ճայ |
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| Species Status: | Threatened Species - Species of Special Concern |
See Plate 59 for Yellow-billed Chough and other similar species
| Resident Status: | Year-round resident |
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| Abundance: | Uncommon |
| Length: | 38 cm, Wing Span:75-85 cm |
| Distribution Map: | Map 341. |
| Description: | Black with rounded wings and long rounded tail. At rest, tips of wings much shorter than tip of tail. |
| Adult: | Short slightly-decurved yellow bill and dull pinkish-red legs. |
| Juvenile: | Pale gray-yellow bill with dark tip, and blackish legs. |
| Similar Species: | Red-billed Chough. |
| Behavior: | Highly gregarious. Breeds at high elevations and feeds along rocky cliffs and in mountain grasslands. Agile flier, soaring at great heights around mountain tops. |
| Habitat: | High mountain cliffs, alpine meadows; lower elevations in winter. |
| Food: | Invertebrates, berries. |
| Nest: | Bulky base of stems with finely lined cup, deep in almost inaccessible crevice or cave in cliff. |
| Eggs: | 38 mm, 5-7, white, dark brown spots. |
