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Definition of chough in English: choughnoun tʃʌftʃəf 1A black Eurasian and North African bird of the crow family, with a downcurved bill and broad, rounded wings, typically frequenting mountains and sea cliffs. Genus Pyrrhocorax (and Pseudopodoces), family Corvidae: three species, especially the (red-billed) chough (P. pyrrhocorax) Example sentencesExamples - The Dingle Peninsula has been highlighted as an international stronghold for an endangered Irish bird, the distinctive red-billed chough.
- Stackpole is also home to the chough, a much rarer bird.
- Along with barnacle geese and choughs, whisky is one of the principal magnets drawing visitors to this hugely rewarding island.
- Now the sheer cliffs are inhabited by choughs, golden eagles, feral goats and basking seals.
- The sea stretches out before them and on a clear day, the shores of Ireland can be seen and brimming with wildlife it is not unusual to spot the rare chough, wild mountain goats or a seal in the sea nearby.
2A black and white Australian bird of the mud-nester family. Corcorax melanorhamphos, family Corcoracidae (or Grallinidae) Example sentencesExamples - A flock of white-winged choughs dropped in to feed the other day.
- At Ngarkat and Karte conservation parks, you can see everything from ring-necked parrots, honeyeaters and white-winged choughs, to Australian bustards, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sometimes even a rare Mallee emu-wren or the Mallee ningaui.
- While paired Australian magpie-larks like to travel with their mates, both apostlebirds and white-winged choughs prefer to flock in small groups of up to twenty birds.
- Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia.
- Emus, mallee fowl, miners and white-winged choughs can be found away from the lakes.
Origin Middle English (originally denoting the jackdaw): probably imitative. Rhymes bluff, buff, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff Definition of chough in US English: choughnounCHəftʃəf A black Eurasian and North African bird of the crow family, with a down-curved bill and broad rounded wings, typically frequenting mountains and sea cliffs. Genus Pyrrhocorax, family Corvidae: three species, especially the red-billed chough (P. pyrrhocorax), with a long red bill, and the alpine chough (P. graculus), with a shorter yellow bill Example sentencesExamples - The Dingle Peninsula has been highlighted as an international stronghold for an endangered Irish bird, the distinctive red-billed chough.
- Now the sheer cliffs are inhabited by choughs, golden eagles, feral goats and basking seals.
- Stackpole is also home to the chough, a much rarer bird.
- The sea stretches out before them and on a clear day, the shores of Ireland can be seen and brimming with wildlife it is not unusual to spot the rare chough, wild mountain goats or a seal in the sea nearby.
- Along with barnacle geese and choughs, whisky is one of the principal magnets drawing visitors to this hugely rewarding island.
Origin Middle English (originally denoting the jackdaw): probably imitative. |