Red-billed Chough, called "Khata or Chunga" in 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

Taken in: 中國 / 青海省 / 海东市 (show map)

Taken on: August 6, 2012

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Tibet བོད

བོད་ལྗོངས།

༢༠༡༢

Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་ bö togang

Amdo & Gyarong ཨ་མདོ། & རྒྱལ་ རོང་ - Far East Tibet

Bayan Khar བ་ཡན་མཁར་ county

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Red-billed Chough

Khwa ta ཁྭ་ཏ།

Chunga ལྕུང་ག

flying of a bird བྱའི་ཕྱུར་ཚུལ jechurtsül

silhouette

bird flight བྱ་འཕུར bya 'phur/ jampur

བྱ་འཕིར bya 'phir/ jampir

Bird བྱ། bya/ ja

Khawa ཁྭ་བ

Kha ཁྭ

birds in flight

jackdaw - choughs

སྐྱུང་ཀ་ skyung ka/ Kyungka

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Camera: Nikon D3, f/10.0, 1/400 sec, 300mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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