Pyrrhocorax

Pyrrhocorax is a genus of two corvid species, the red-billed chough and the Alpine chough, together called choughs, resident in mountainous country of southern Eurasia and North Africa from Morocco and Spain east through the Alps, Central Asia and the Himalayas to western China, with the red-billed species also holding coastal populations in Ireland, Britain and Brittany. Choughs are black-plumaged but distinguished from other corvids by brightly coloured legs, feet and bills, the Alpine species with a yellow bill and the red-billed species with a long curved red bill, and both display long broad wings used for spectacular aerobatic flight. They pair for life, nest in caves or crevices in cliff faces, and lay three to five eggs in a lined stick nest.