Information about Pyrrhocorax

Pyrrhocorax
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P. graculus

P. graculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Corvidae
Genus:Pyrrhocorax
Tunstall, 1771
Species


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Pyrrhocorax is the name of a genus of black European birds in the Corvidae (crow) family. They are given the name of chough because of the sound they make.

They are predominantly black in colour with brightly coloured legs, feet, and bills. They have long broad wings for soaring and are often spectacular aeronauts.

The two species are below:
  • Chough or Red-billed Chough, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
  • Graja, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
  • Alpine Chough or Yellow-billed Chough, Pyrrhocorax graculus

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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Passeriformes
Linnaeus, 1758

Suborders
  • Acanthisitti
  • Tyranni
  • Passeri


A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. More than half of all species of bird are passerines.
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Corvidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

many, see article text

Corvidae is a family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies and nutcrackers (Clayton and Emery 2005, [1] ).
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Marmaduke Tunstall (1743 - October 11, 1790) was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica (1771), probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature.

Tunstall was born at Burton Constable in Yorkshire.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Corvidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

many, see article text

Corvidae is a family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies and nutcrackers (Clayton and Emery 2005, [1] ).
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Corvus
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

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The true crows are large passerine birds that comprise the genus Corvus. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-sized jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the Common Raven of the
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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P. pyrrhocorax

Binomial name
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Red-billed Chough, or just Chough (pronounced IPA:
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P. pyrrhocorax

Binomial name
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Red-billed Chough, or just Chough (pronounced IPA:
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P. p. barbarus

Trinomial name
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
Vaurie, 1954

The graja, pronounced as ['graxa:] (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax barbarus
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P. graculus

Binomial name
Pyrrhocorax graculus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus), also called Yellow-billed Chough
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