The Alpine Chough’s breeding site, is usually a cave or crevice in a cliff face at high altitude. It feeds, usually in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey in summer and fruit in winter but it will readily approach tourist sites to find supplementary food. There was a huge flock of them at Everest Base Camp. One in particular stood less than 5 feet from me when I was building Ryan’s memorial.