Alpine Chough, Yellow-billed Chough, Pyrrhocorax graculus, Jenner Mountain, Bavaria, German Alps, Germany


The Alpine chough, or yellow-billed chough is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia and Nepal, and it may nest at a higher altitude than any other bird.


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Location: Jenner Mountain, Bavaria, Berchtesgaden Alps, German Alps, Germany
Photo credit: © Dominic Robinson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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