Operation Chough - Click here for website

The Red-billed Chough is the "national" bird of Cornwall. It features on the Cornish coat of arms, and its image is inextricably linked with Cornish myth and legends.

Cornish Chough in Flight - Picture by R Hales

In 1973 the last known chough died, after many years of habitat destruction and falling numbers of breeding pairs took their toll on the wild population. At the same time plans were being drawn up at Paradise Park to study the choughs decline, with hopes to re-establish the king of the crows back onto his throne.

2001 saw a small group of choughs arrive on the Lizard peninsula, and this has raised hopes that the environment is now able to support small numbers of choughs once more...

For more details, please click on the link below to go to the Operation Chough website.

Operation Chough website