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The Crave headline the Joiners in Southampton on a mini-tour with Enjoy Destroy and Young Guns 17.05.09
My Choice: the Drunken Onion: cabernet caramelized onions, Gruyere, Swiss, and French onion soup for dipping with sweet potato fries! It worries me that my family selected this for me! As eaten at Crave Real Burger, Castle Rock, Colorado.
Tory Island, Co.Donegal Ireland
[order] Passeriformes | [family] Corvidae | [latin] Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | [UK] Chough | [FR] Crave à bec rouge | [DE] Alpenkrähe | [ES] Chova piquirroja | [IT] Gracchio corallino | [NL] Alpenkraai | [IRL] Cág cosdearg
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 73 cm
spanwidth max.: 90 cm
size min.: 39 cm
size max.: 40 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 17 days
incubation max.: 18 days
fledging min.: 31 days
fledging max.: 41 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 5
Status: Resident along rocky coasts in Munster, as well as parts of Connaght and Ulster.
Conservation Concern: Amber-listed in Ireland. The European population has been evaluated as declining by BirdLife International, due to an ongoing moderate decline.
Identification: Marginally larger than the familiar Jackdaw, at 40 cm in length, in many respects the Chough looks like a typical all-black crow. At close range, however, its unique long, down-curved red bill and bright red legs make identification easy; the Irish name of this species translates as “red-legged Jackdaw”. Choughs also have more prominently “fingered” flight-feathers than our other crows, giving them a distinctive silhouette in the air.
Amongst our most accomplished aerobatic fliers, Choughs frequently swoop and soar in updrafts around cliffs, seemingly often just for fun. So skilled are these natural stunt pilots that they will sometimes even fly upside down, perform barrel rolls, etc.
Call: A very distinctive “key-aww”
Diet: Feeds mostly on insects and their larvae, worms and other subterranean invertebrates, using their curved bills to dig them out of the soil. They will also eat berries, grain, small mammals and birds and, in true crow fashion, pretty much anything else they can find.
Breeding: Nests in caves or crevices along coasts, or less frequently, in old buildings.
Wintering: Mainly local dispersal from breeding sites to favoured coastal areas.
Where to See: The Dingle Peninsula and the Cliffs of Moher and Waterford coastline are reliable sites to see this species
Physical characteristics
Red-billed Chough has bright blue black plumage, with green sheen on wings. Wings are long with long primaries. Eyes are black. Down curved bill is red and slender. Legs and feet are red, with black claws. Both sexes are similar. Juvenile is duller than adults, with yellow orange bill.
Red-billed Chough performs a superb and very graceful flight. It likes to play in thermal currents, performing vertiginous dives and acrobatic swoops. It soars effortless, and rises with the wind, crossing contrary winds to stop before diving with strong wing beats to get good speed. Then, it glides easily, and slewing its wide tail, it turns into the wind and rises again rapidly, performing a close turn while it goes forwards drifting slightly on the side. It is the only bird in the world able to perform this aerial display.
Red-billed Chough feeds on maritime heaths and pastures at the top of cliffs. When on ground, it may walk, hop or run quickly on short distance. It is a gregarious species, and they gather in groups to feed in short grassy areas. They are often seen in pairs or in small flocks, but also in large groups of hundreds of birds. Each group has a hierarchy, and birds may live and feed together without any problem. Young need 2 to 3 years within a group to get their own status, with some aggressive but rarely important fights. When food resources are reduced, dominant birds are able to find food enough, in order to survive and breed successfully. During breeding season, Red-billed Chough pair defends strongly its territory, chasing away any intruder able to threaten the nest site. If a predator comes too close, choughs perform spectacular aerial displays, to defend young still dependent within the group.
Habitat
Red-billed Chough breeds in high mountains and coastal cliffs, but with adjacent short grass pastures. It is also found in grassy and cultivated areas with rocky crags.
Other details
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax is resident in parts of Britain and Ireland and across much of southern Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (10%) overall.
This bird has a discontinuous distribution in southern Europe and Central Asia, from Turkey to China. Small populations also inhabit the Canary islands, Morocco and Ethiopia. It is breeding in low-lying mountainous regions and along rocky coasts. The population of the European Union amounts to 14000 breeding pairs, but in most regions it is declining
Feeding
Red-billed Chough feeds on terrestrial invertebrates, mainly ants, insects and larvae. They also consume seeds and berries in winter. Coastal birds also eat crustaceans and molluscs.
Conservation
This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 86,000-210,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of a population decline (Madge and Burn 1993), but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Red-billed Chough's nest is a bulky loose structure, made with twigs and roots, linked by mud. This nest is lined with soft materials such as wool and hair. It is located in rocky crevices or cavities, or on ledges of cliffs, or buildings, but also in mountain caves. Both parents take part in nest building. Female lays, in March to May, 3 to 5 pale buffy, creamy or green eggs, with various brown and grey markings. Incubation lasts about 17 days, and female starts to incubate when the first egg is laid. She is often fed by the male while she sits on the nest, but sometimes, she joins its mate to feed with it and a small group. Altricial chicks are tended and brooded by female the first ten days. She gives them small bits of food brought by the male. When young reach 5 to 7 days of age, male feeds them with female. Parents regurgitate invertebrates to feed them. When young reach their complete plumage, at about 38 days of age, they shelter into individual hidden places near to the nest, from where they rush out with noise to be fed by adults. One week later, young follow the adults and learn how to feed themselves. They become independent one month later, but they remain in the family group until the next breeding season. These young may help their parents to raise the chicks of the following clutch the next year. They reach their sexual maturity at 2 to 3 years.
Migration
Mainly sedentary. Recorded far from breeding areas only exceptionally. During cold winters but it may reach lower altitudes.
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The Top Shelf “Party box” is our latest collaboration with Brian Efird, President of Top Shelf Company. The party box was manufactured at the Trailers of the East Coast service department from a decommissioned ocean shipping container. Reusing a decommissioned shipping container and recycling much of the original steel makes this “green” project an environmentally friendly alternative to new construction.
Aaron Craver and the Trailers of the East Coast service team began the transformation from shipping container to Top Shelf entertainment space with a complete tear-down. Working from the exposed frame, the team continued the process with installation of custom electrical, lighting, mechanical, sound and entertainment system infrastructure.
With the support and infrastructure systems in place, the interior and exterior build-out was completed by installing custom finishes on the ceilings, floors and walls, interior and exterior lighting, satellite, sound and entertainment systems. Finally, the team built and installed a custom stairway, flooring and rail systems for a new roof-top patio space which provides fans and guests with a great place to watch the game or event.
Photograph taken at an altitude of Four metres, in the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise, at 07:13am on Thursday 21st February 2014, off Botany Road and the Viking Coastal Trail on the shoreline of Botany Bay, the Northern most of seven bays in Broadstairs, Kent, England.
The seven bays are (from south to north) Dumpton Gap, Louisa Bay, Viking Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay, Kingsgate Bay and Botany Bay.
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