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title: "Yellow-billed Chough"
description: "Pyrrhocorax graculus — Uccelli. The Alpine chough (; chuf) or yellow-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/yellow-billed-chough
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-billed Chough

> Pyrrhocorax graculus — Uccelli. The Alpine chough (; chuf) or yellow-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax.

- Scientific name: *Pyrrhocorax graculus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 12597
- Wikidata: [Q191386](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191386)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8350](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8350)

## Names

- en: Yellow-billed Chough
- de: Alpendohle
- es: Chova alpina
- fr: Chocard à bec jaune
- nl: Alpenkauw
- pt: Gralha-de-bico-amarelo
- pl: Wieszczek

## Countries with the most observations

IT (2142), FR (2049), CH (1760), AT (1566), DE (931), ES (769), RU (402), SI (246), MA (186), NP (147), GE (130), IN (128)

## Summary

The Alpine chough (; chuf) or yellow-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia and Nepal, and it may nest at a higher altitude than any other bird. Its eggs have adaptations to the thin atmosphere that improve oxygen take-up and reduce water loss.
This bird has glossy black plumage, a yellow beak, red legs, and distinctive calls. It has a buoyant acrobatic flight with widely spread flight feathers. The Alpine chough pairs…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_chough

## Photo

![Yellow-billed Chough](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-billed-chough/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89076536

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-billed-chough?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).