Red-billed Chough digging for food in the harsh winter of Ladakh

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Red-billed Chough searching for food in the harsh winter of Ladakh. The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough, is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China. This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion . Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion . The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresh