Chocard with yellow nozzle

The chocard with yellow nozzle ( Pyrrhocorax graculus ) is a Oiseau Corvidae nearer to the crave with red nozzle ( Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax ) that jackdaw of the turns Corvus monedula .

Description

The plumage is entirely black with metal reflections, the legs are red and the yellow nozzle. The size, 36-39 cm, is exactly that of the jackdaw, the scale reaches 70 to 85 cm and weight 190 to 240 G, without sexual dimorphism.

Very beautiful to observe in flight, the chocards use with wonder the drafts and seem to take pleasure to continue or to try out the air operations, they live in many bands.

Longevity up to 16 years in freedom.

Habitat

The chocards are in high mountain until: 4000 m of altitude, in the the Alps, the the Pyrenees, the the Abruzzi, the Balkans, in Corsica, in the the Caucasus and in Central Asia (the Himalayas).

In mountainous area, it happens that he is confused with the Choucas of the turns ( Corvus monedula ), another corvidé of size and from roughly equivalent weights, they are characterized primarily by the color from the nozzle, yellow at the chocard and black in the jackdaw. The jackdaw, honest " voletailleur" , in general the altitude does not exceed of: 1000 meters, although it was observed by it until: 2000 meters, whereas the chocard is a sailplane of the summits except par which can benefit from the least ascending current and which carries out during its flights of the air gimlets. It was also observed bands of chocards pursueing eagles or vultures to carry help to congeneric in difficulty, and it is not rare to meet chocards at the top of the Mont Blanc accompanying the mountaineers to beg their snack; it is completely disadvised besides nourishing these wild birds in particular with Pain because they do not digest the Gluten Blé.

Food mode

It is an omnivorous bird: Insect S, Invertebrate S, bays, Seed S, egg S, Carrion S, waste and in particular remainders of food of the mountaineers.

Reproduction

The chocard niche in cliff anfractuosities, the well stuffed nest shelters from 3 to 5 eggs for an incubation from 18 to 21 days, the young people leave the nest at the end of 31 to 38 days.

Chocard in hiver

External bonds

Vidéos on Internet Bird Collection

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