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
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