Steve Porter found a dead Chough on his morning sheep check a few days ago in Solfach. It had been hanging around for a few days on the beach, looking bedraggled with missing seconadries and bare patches. It's hard to say whether it was poorly because of fighting with other Choughs or being attacked by a predator, or if it just succumbed to the winter, but it was very thin. The bird had been ringed as a nestling about 20 km at Cilan on the Llyn, which is a pretty typical recovery distance for a first winter Chough.
Jim
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