The chough is the Cornish national bird and one of my favourite birds. After a steady decline in numbers, they disappeared completely from our shores back in the 1950’s, Cornwall being the last place in England they inhabited. Thankfully in 2001 four wild choughs were seen in West Cornwall and, since then they have been breeding successfully with around 19 pairs as of 2018. A great photo of a chough still eludes me but we bump into them a fair amount now in Cornwall, around the Crantock coastline, West Penwith, the Lizard and Southern coast. We have even seen them by chance in Brittany and Portugal. This chough was amongst the coastal heath land in Brittany.