The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (/ˈtʃʌf/ CHUFF) (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 Asia, India and China.This bird has glossy black plumage, a long curved red bill, red legs, and a loud, ringing call.