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Birdsong in Grindelwald – Notes from the Bernese Alps

Bijoy VenugopalJune 7, 2020June 5, 2021

Ravens, choughs, blackbirds… the stars of the snow-white alpine playground of the Swiss Alps are mostly black. A birding diary from the fabled Jungfrau region

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Chuffed by a chough

Bijoy VenugopalJune 14, 2014January 5, 2015

The first time I came upon ‘chough’ I thought it was a dictionary entry for an act of expectoration by one with a North Indian surname. It would be a few years before I got the hang of what it was really – a kind of crow