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The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ f / CHUF; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), 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 ...
Penarth (Cornish - penn ors, bear head) - Argent, a chevron between three bears' heads erased Sable muzzled Or. Penwyn (Cornish - penn gwynn, white head) - Gules, three boars' heads erased in pale Argent; Penberthy (Cornish - penn perthy, head bushes) - Argent, two choughs heads above a gorse bush proper. Gwyn (Cornish - gwynn, white) - Per ...
The choughs are medium-sized corvids; the red-billed chough is 39–40 centimetres (15–16 in) in length with a 73–90 centimetres (29–35 in) wingspan, and the Alpine chough averages slightly smaller at 37–39 (14.5–15.5 in) length with a 75–85 cm (30–33 in) wingspan. [23]
Cornish is a town in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 274 at the 2020 census . It is included in the Logan, Utah - Idaho (partial) Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Supporters: On either side a Cornish chough proper [beaked and legged gules], [2] supporting an ostrich feather Argent, penned Or. Motto: Houmont [1] (or Houmout). [3] [4] [5] The shield is ensigned with the Heir Apparent's coronet. [6] The supporters were granted by Royal Warrant of 21 June 1968. [1] Council
Cornish chough. The chough (in Cornish = palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall. Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" was also used as a nickname for Cornish people.
In 2018, researchers discovered fossilized vomit during an excavation in southeastern Utah, Live Science reported. In a study published in 2022 in the journal Palaios, ...
Escutcheon: Argent a fess Gules between six Cornish choughs Proper. Crest: An eagle Sable preying upon a partridge Or. Motto: Semper Fidelis [11] Sir John Cust, Speaker of the House 1761–1770 Crest: A Lion's Head erased Sable gorged with a Collar paly wavy of six Argent and Azure Escutcheon: Ermine on a Chevron Sable three Fountains proper