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• We also fund recovery projects for chough, bittern, corncrake, stone curlew and cirl bunting. Times, Sunday Times
• I often wondered why glider manufacturers didn't try to emulate the Mountain or Alpine Chough's planform.
• The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough. The White Queen
• A flock of white-winged choughs dropped in to feed the other day.
• There are two sub-families: The Corvinae includes crows, ravens, nutcrackers, jackdaws, and rooks, while jays, magpies, and choughs compose the Garrulinae.
• Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure. Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
• Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure. Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
• This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel.
• Stackpole is also home to the chough, a much rarer bird.
• I have known it somehow happen, that those on whom your Imperial Majesty has lavished the most valuable expressions of your favour one day, were the next day food to fatten the chough and crow. Count Robert of Paris