China Cultural Chronicles October 23, 2012
- Chosen.... cooked ...and
- ....eaten
- Chough, flying games, Tibet 2012
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Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax,Red-billed Chough, Khata ཁྭ་ཏ or Chunga ལྕུང་ག,
The choughs breed in mountains from Morocco and Spain eastwards through southern Europe and the Alps across Central Asia and the Himalayas as far as the Tibetan Plateau.
This bird has glossy black plumage, a long curved red bill, red legs, and a loud, ringing call. It has a buoyant acrobatic flight with widely spread primaries. The Red-billed Chough pairs for life and displays fidelity to its breeding site, which is usually a cave or crevice in a cliff face. It builds a wool-lined stick nest and lays three eggs. It feeds, often in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_Chough - Old Door @ Islam Missionary Tomb in Kuche
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