Red-billed Chough
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Red-billed Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Royal Manas National Park
2 Verified records at Royal Manas National Park
☀️ Diurnal When it's active during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough ( CHUF; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe, North Africa and Middle East to Central Asia, India and China. 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. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Royal Manas National Park

Gray Treepie
LC

Gray Treepie

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Dendrocitta formosae

40–50% · Likely
Common Green Magpie
LC

Common Green Magpie

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Cissa chinensis

20–30% · Possible
Gold-billed Magpie
LC

Gold-billed Magpie

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Urocissa flavirostris

Insufficient data
Large-billed Crow
LC

Large-billed Crow

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Corvus macrorhynchos

10–20% · With luck
Collared Treepie
LC

Collared Treepie

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Dendrocitta frontalis

5–10% · With luck
Rufous Treepie
LC

Rufous Treepie

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Dendrocitta vagabunda

<5% · Rare
Eurasian Jay
LC Endemic

Eurasian Jay

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Garrulus glandarius

<5% · Rare
House Crow
LC

House Crow

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Corvus splendens

Insufficient data
Scarlet Minivet

Scarlet Minivet

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Pericrocotus speciosus

60–70% · Likely
Streaked Spiderhunter
LC

Streaked Spiderhunter

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Arachnothera magna

50–60% · Likely
Bronzed Drongo
LC Endemic

Bronzed Drongo

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Dicrurus aeneus

50–60% · Likely
Orange-bellied Leafbird
LC

Orange-bellied Leafbird

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Chloropsis hardwickii

50–60% · Likely

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Red-billed Chough at Royal Manas National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

☀️ When They're Spotted

Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)

☀️Diurnal
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Picos de Europa National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
50–60%
2 Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
40–50%
3 Hemis National Park 🇮🇳 India
30–40%
4 Cévennes National Park 🇫🇷 France
30–40%
5 Aigüestortes National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
30–40%
6 Jiuzhaigou National Park 🇨🇳 China
20–30%
7 Pyrénées National Park 🇫🇷 France
20–30%
8 Langtang National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
20–30%
9 Bale Mountains National Park 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
10–20%
10 Khangchendzonga National Park 🇮🇳 India
10–20%
11 Mercantour National Park 🇫🇷 France
10–20%
12 Sierra Nevada National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
10–20%
13 Sierra de Guadarrama National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
10–20%
14 Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park 🇲🇳 Mongolia
5–10%
15 Snowdonia National Park 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
<5%
16 Monfragüe National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
<5%
17 Royal Manas National Park 🇧🇹 Bhutan
Insufficient data
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