(n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Example Sentences:
(1) In June, coastal birds such as choughs, kittiwakes and razorbills bred late and reared few young.
(2) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(3) Beethoven incorporated snatches of the cuckoo, quail and nightingale in his Pastoral Symphony , while the 20th-centure French composer Oliver Messiaen went even further , using the sounds of species such as the golden oriole, woodlark, and even the harsh cries of the alpine chough in his musical works.
(4) A System of Counting Crows Named after "not-actual" creators System of a Down and Counting Crows' Adam Duritz , this rollback of capitalism is based on the numeration of birds in the crow family – including rooks, choughs and nutcrackers.
(5) Other rare birds, from chough to stone curlew to cirl bunting , have done better than ever this year, because farmers collaborated with wildlife charities from the RSPB to the National Trust.