CHOUGH CRITICAL BREEDING PERIOD. Please avoid posting photos of the Choughs during the breeding season and divulging their location and nest sites from 1st March to 31st July. #Choughs #CornishChoughs #Palores #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature
Chun-Chieh Liao (PhD student) and Lola von Kietzell (Masters student) who worked together on the white-winged chough population in Canberra, Australia.
#Chun-Chieh combined detailed field #observations, acoustic #analyses and a playback #experiment. He also brilliantly trained & mentored @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #Masters student #LolaVonKietzell who was conducting parallel work on the #choughs.
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Lead author and PhD student Chun-Chieh Liao with a white-winged chough, his Australian study organism.
#Chun-ChiehLiao studied white-winged #choughs for his nearly completed #PhD. In this latest published chapter, he shows:
- Choughs produced different alarm calls according to threat type and urgency.
- ‘Bulging eyes’ occurred with one call type and might enhance alarm communication.
#ECR #birds
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🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) The Alpine Chough (also known as the Yellow-billed Chough) has glossy black plumage, a short yellow bill, and red legs. It's distributed across high mountains from Spain through southern Europe, North Africa, to Central Asia and the Himalayas, often nesting higher than any other bird. These highly social birds are renowned for their acrobatic flight and are often seen in flocks. They are opportunistic, feeding on invertebrates and frequently scavenging near tourist sites in winter. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Alpine Chough is thought to nest at a higher altitude than any other bird in the world, with records of them following mountaineers up to over 8,000 meters on Mount Everest 📷: Photo by mzter via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/mzter-104756/ XATK
🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #AlpineChough #YellowBilledChough #PyrrhocoraxGraculus | #Choughs #CrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by mzter🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
White-winged choughs in Canberra, Australia - the bird species studied in the newly published work.
Interested in vocal #communication? How animals provide referential #information about danger? Then see our 🌟NEW🌟 paper by brilliant ANU #PhD student Chun-Chieh Liao out today in @asab.org Animal Behaviour. 🎉👏
#birds #choughs #fieldwork #ECR
With Rob Magrath and Rob Heinsohn
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Chough Thermal - silkscreen print by painter and printmaker, Carry Akroyd
Because you can't have too many Choughs popping up in your Bluesky feed!
More of Carry's stunning artwork, here: carryakroyd.co.uk
#art #birds #birdart #Choughs
Just back from three days on the North West coast of #Cornwall. The weather was wild and wonderful, and the highlight of our trip was seeing #Choughs!
Rubbish footage as I only had my phone camera with me, but what a treat, and what a backdrop.
Chuffed to bits!
#birds #wildlife
Caught this great little programme on a long drive north from Cornwall today 🎧
Sharing the enthusiasm for these brilliant birds!
@horatioclare.bsky.social #choughs
Chough Sightings
#Chough #Choughs #CornishChough #CornishChoughs #ChoughWatching #Palores #PaloresowKernewek #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK
Another remarkable year for the Cornish Choughs. 2025 marks the third year in succession that the Cornish Chough have added over 100 Choughlets to their population. #Chough #Choughs #CornishChoughs #ChoughWatching #Palores #CBWPS
📷1st Photo by Mark James
📷2nd Photo by Rowena Castillo-Nicholls
This was a beautiful programme, “deeply kind” in its own right. Thank you as always @horatioclare.bsky.social #Choughs
Choughs and other Rare and Sensitive Breeding Birds. #Choughs #Palores #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #BeautyAndWonderOfNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #ILoveCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK
Cornish Chough Conservation Network:
1. RSPB
2. National Trust
3. Natural England
4. Cornwall Birds (CBWPS)
#Choughs #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK
I’m envious. I hope to spot #choughs every time we’re back in Cornwall but haven’t been lucky yet. Fingers crossed for September.
Yesterday’s lovely evening #walk from #Botallack to #KenidjackCastle — where we saw #choughs! — along #southwestcoastpath & back again on a more inland path that gave us wonderful views of old #minebuildings outlined against sea & sky. Pics here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BiP...
Masters student Lola von Kietzell setting up a cheese trial as part of a field experiment.
Masters student Lola von Kietzell with one of her white-winged chough study groups in Canberra, Australia.
Masters student Lola von Kietzell with her field playback equipment.
Masters student Lola von Kietzell and PhD student Chun-Chieh Liao looking for their study white-winged choughs in Canberra, Australa.
🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 to Lola von Kietzell on completing a brilliant #Masters field season with the wonderful white-winged #choughs. 👏
Thanks to Chun-Chieh Liao & Rob Magrath (@scienceanu.bsky.social) for in-field support & @josharbon.bsky.social for additional advice. 👍
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
-> Feargal spotting choughs through his binoculars. Choughs were too far away for photos but we heard them clearly and saw the red beaks!#southwestcoastpath #choughs #footpath #cliffpath #cliffs #sea #walk #eveningwalk #landsend #sennen #cornwall #kernow #kernowlife #kernowfornia
Ponies on rocks on Cornish coast
A pair of Choughs in the grass
Turquoise sea
Small village and boats from above
Gorgeous walk along the coast path to the lovely cove and village of Penberth.
Ponies and a pair of Choughs feeding in the grass.
#choughs
#southwestcoastpath
#cornwall
#kernow
Trail run along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path this morning. Wet and windy but still gorgeous 💚
Stopping regularly for bird-spotting inc guillemots, choughs, and a heron 👀
#pembrokeshire #pembrokeshirecoastpath #birds #coastalbirds #trailrunning #choughs #guillemots
High over Morocco’s peaks, two acrobats rule the skies: the Red-billed and Alpine Chough. Bright bills, bold calls, and fearless flight in the thin Atlas air. #birding #Morocco #choughs
Pair of #Choughs feeding and collecting shed wool for nest materials today on the cliffs around #TreginnisIsaf.
Guests on this #vegan and #vegetarian tour have been sampling fab sustainable seasonal food but also early #spring, which is a go here in the #mountains.
Nest-building Griffon #Vultures cruising at eye level, tumbling Red-billed #Choughs, Common #Firecrests & Ring #Ouzels right in front of us
"Chough Chavs".
#poem #comicpoem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrycornwall #choughs
Excited that, for first time in my life, a wild pair of #choughs have chosen to make their home on our farm. Hoping they will breed next spring. #Cornwall
#Corvid threads are among the finest in the social media world. #Crows #Ravens #Magpies #Jackdaws #Rooks #Jays #Treepies, #Choughs, and #Nutcrackers.
#choughs Yesterday
So glad I ventured out in #stormburt #choughs #Cornwall
