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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 ...
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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
A breeding pair of Cornish choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), a rare crow–like bird in Cornwall, have produced clutches of eggs in a cave at Lizard Point, within the site. [9] In 2002 this pair was the first choughs to breed in the county in 50 years, with other pairs around Cornwall having bred since. [10] [11]
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]
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 ...
John Harris FRHS (14 October 1820 – 7 January 1884) was a Cornish poet. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in April 1879 for being ″distinguished in letters″. [3] Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England.
The chough (Cornish: palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall. [clarification needed] 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. [clarification needed]