skyung ka

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སྐྱུང་ཀ
jackdaw, choughs, pyrrhocorora graculus, bird of the crow family common in the Tibetan high plateau; it has a black body with red beak and claws [JV]

jackdaw, black bird w red beak and feet [IW]

(med) Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) (Drungtso 1999)
Synonyms : dpyid 'bod, bdud bya (Jam-dpal)

skyung ka ni / dpyid 'bod / bdud bya zer / shing la gnas pa'i skya ga 'dra la nag po mchu dmar po 'dug / rgyud las / khron gyis brko ba'i sde la bshad / (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print 224)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_021) skyung ka. Jam-dpal (print p 224) skyung ka

Of the crow family, with 8 sub-species : Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax himalayanus: Himalayas and N-India to W-China (avibase).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 10:48, 17 February 2024 (EST)