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Category: Galliformes
Domestic Chicken
A domesticated descendant of the Red Junglefowl, bred in hundreds of breeds worldwide.
Red Junglefowl
The wild ancestor of the domestic chicken, colorful with a red comb and iridescent plumage.
Indian Peafowl
A spectacular bird with an iridescent blue neck and a huge ornate train, the national bird of India.
Green Peafowl
A rare green peacock with long legs, endangered in Southeast Asian forests.
Common Pheasant
A colorful game bird with iridescent bronze/green body and long barred tail in males.
Golden Pheasant
A spectacular Chinese pheasant with a golden crest and orange body, famous worldwide.
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
A striking pheasant with a white belly and black-and-white barred plumage.
Brown Eared Pheasant
A rare blue-brown pheasant with long white ear tufts, endemic to northern China.
Guinea Fowl
A gray bird covered in white pearl spots with a bare helmeted head, kept for meat.
Common Quail
A small migratory game bird with cryptic brown plumage, kept for eggs and meat.
Button Quail
A tiny ground-dwelling quail-like bird, increasingly kept as an easy-breeding miniature pet.
Domestic Turkey
A large domesticated bird with a bare red wattle and snood, bred worldwide for meat.
Chukar Partridge
A round partridge with barred flanks, red bill and legs, on rocky slopes.
Grey Francolin
A gray-brown partridge with barred breast, common in scrub and farmland.
Grey Peacock-Pheasant
A pheasant with iridescent ocelli spots on the wings, secretive in lowland forests.
Swinhoe's Pheasant
A glossy blue-black pheasant endemic to Taiwan, males with white tail tips.
Temminck's Tragopan
A colorful pheasant with a blue face and bright orange chest, in mountain forests.
Silver Pheasant
A long-tailed white pheasant with black markings, common in southern forests.
