THE WORLD BIRDS - An Online Bird Book
GALLIFORMES
Galliformes are heavy-bodied ground-feeding domestic or game birds. Most are plump-bodied with thick necks and moderately long legs, and have rounded and rather short wings. They do not fly well if at all, but walk and run instead for transportation. These birds vary greatly in size from 12-120 cm. Many adult males have one to several sharp horny spurs on the back of each leg, which they use for fighting. They can be found worldwide and in a variety of habitats, including forests, deserts, and meadows. Male courtship behavior includes elaborate visual displays of plumage. Gallinaceous birds feed on a variety of plant and animal material, which may include fruits, seeds, leaves, shoots, flowers, tubers, roots, insects, snails, worms, lizards, snakes, small rodents, and eggs.
Some of the Gallifrom families:
Cracidae: chachalac, curassow, guan.
Numididae : Guineafowl
Odontophoridae : New World Quail
Phasianidae: francolin, grouse, partridge, pheasant, Old World quail.
Pheasants
Order Galliformes Family Phasianidae
Pheasants are characterised by strong sexual dimorphism, males being highly ornate with brightcolours and adornments such as wattles and long tails. Males are usually larger than females and have longer tails. Males play no part in rearing the young. Pheasants typically eat seeds and some insects.
Genus Afropavo
Peafowl,_Congo Afropavo congensis Found: Congo Basin of Africa
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P_Khoo 2)
Frank_Wouters 3)
Melissa 4)
VivaAntarctica 5)
LtShears
1, 2) Pair 3) Female 4, 5) Male
Genus Argusianus
Pheasant,_Great Argus also
Great Argus Argusianus argus Found: Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia
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Dick Daniels -
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo 2)
Dick -
Sylvan Heights
3)
Sandy Cole -
National Aviary 4)
Dick - San Diego Zoo
1) Female
2, 3) Male
Genus Catreus - 1 species
Pheasant,_Cheer Catreus wallichii Found: above 6000 feet in Himalayas
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BelgianChocolate 2)
Dhruvaraj 3)
Patrick_Gruban
Genus Chrysolophus
Pheasant,_Golden Chrysolophus pictus Found: Asia, Europe (introduced)
Image by:
1, 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels -
Birds of Eden, South Africa 5)
Sandy Cole -
Birds of Eden 6)
Arthur Chapman
1, 2) Female 3 - 6) Male
Pheasant,_Lady Amherst's Chrysolophus amherstiae Found: southwestern China, northern Myanmar
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Lencer 1, 2, 4) Dick Daniels -
Sylvan Heights 3)
Sandy Cole -
Sylvan Heights
1) Female 2 - 5) Male
Genus Crossoptilon
The eared pheasants have ear tufts. Eared pheasants move across deep snow by whirring their wings and fluttering close to the ground, and supporting their weight on their tails.
Pheasant,_Blue-eared Crossoptilon auritum Found: mountain forests of central China
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Zicon 2)
Stevenn 3)
dims2012
Pheasant,_Brown-eared Crossoptilon mantchuricum Found: northern China
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Josh_More 2)
Somongkol_Teng 3)
Josh_More
Pheasant,_White-eared Crossoptilon crossoptilon Found: India, China
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1, 3) Snowyowls 2)
vowersweims 4)
Henry_Koh
Genus Gallus
Junglefowl,_Gray Gallus sonneratii Found: India
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Koshy_Koshy - India
2, 3) Yathin_Krishnappa 4)
Nagesh_Kamath
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Nale
Junglefowl,_Green Gallus varius Found: Indonesia
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Greg_Boege 2)
Stevenn 3, 4) Dernard_Dupont
Junglefowl, Red also
Rooster also
Male Chicken Gallus
gallus Found: almost everywhere; native to Asia
Image by:
1, 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Hawaii 5)
S. Shankar - Kuala Lumpur Bird Park
None are pure Junglefowl. Junglefowl have gray legs while domestic fowl have golden yellow legs.
Junglefowl,_Sri_Lanka Gallus lafayettii Found: Sri Lanka
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Shanaka_Aravinda 2)
David Cook 3, 4) Steve_Garvie
1) Chicks 2, 3) Female 4) Male
Genus Ithaginis - 1 species
Pheasant,_Blood Ithaginis cruentus Found: eastern Himalayas
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Biodiversity_Heritage_Library 2)
Koshy_Koshy 3)
Allan_Drewitt 4)
eMammal
Genus Lophophorus
Monal,_Chinese Lophophorus lhuysii Found: mountains of central China
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Smithsonian_Wild 2)
Snowyowls
Monal,_Himalayan Lophophorus impejanus Found: Himalayas
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Cuatrok77 2, 5) Koshy_Koshy - India 3)
Dibyendu_Ash 4) Jorge_Hempel 6) Dick Daniels -
Sylvan Heights 7)
AJIT_HOTA
1 - 3) Female 4 - 7) Male
Monal,_Sclater's Lophophorus sclateri Found: east Himalayas region
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Prasad 2, 3) Zhang_Yong - southeastern Tibet
Genus Lophura
Fireback,_Crested Lophura ignita Found: Asia
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1, 2) LonelyShrimp - Malaysia 3)
Norbert Potenski 4)
Eva Hadja 5)
Dick Daniels - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
1) Pair 2) Female 3 - 5) Male
Fireback, Crestless Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore
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Muzina Shanghai 2)
Dick_Culbert
Fireback, Siamese Lophura diardi Found: Asia
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1, 2) Cuatrok77 3)
Dick Daniels - Miami Zoo 4)
cuatrok77
Pheasant,_Bulwer's Lophura bulweri Found: southeast Asia (Borneo)
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Stickpen - San Diego Zoo 2)
Lorraine Paulhus - San Diego Zoo
1, 2) Male
Pheasant,_Edwards's Lophura edwardsi Found: Vietnam
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Thaisk 2)
Dick Daniels -
Miami Zoo 3)
Joop Reuvecamp 4)
Cuatrok77
1) Female 2 - 4) Male
Pheasant,_Kalij Lophura leucomelanos Found: northern India to western Thailand; introduced - Hawaii
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brewbooks - Hawaii 2)
Frank Schulenburg - Hawaii 3)
Dibyendu_Ash 4)
Lip Kee - Assam India 5)
Tinyfroglet - Hawaii 6)
Mprasannak
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male
Pheasant,_Saladori's Lophura inornata Found: Sumatra (Indonesia)
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David_Louis_Burton 2, 3) Frank_Wouters
Pheasant,_Silver Lophura nycthemera Found: Asia
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lonelyshrimp 2)
Andrew Butka 3)
MZPlus 4)
Sandy Cole - Central Zoo of Nepal
1) Pair 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pheasant,_Swinhoe's Lophura swinhoii Found: Taiwan
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Dick Daniels -
World of Birds, Cape Town 2)
Charles_Lam 3)
Quartl - Walsrode Bird Park, Germany 4)
Alnus
1) Female 2) Male
Pheasant, Vietnamese Lophura hatinhensis also
Lophura edwardsi Found: Vietnam
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Glen Bowman 2)
Tomosuke
1) Pair 2) Male
Genus Pavo
Peafowl, Common also
Indian Peafowl also
Peacock Pavo cristatus Found: almost everywhere; native to India
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Dick -
Flamingo Gardens in Flroida 2)
Dick - Mayaquez Zoo, Puerto Rico 3)
Dick - San Diego Zoo
4,
8) Dick - Pine Grove Waterfowl Park, Virginia
5, 6) Dick - Scotland 7)
Sandy Cole -
Sylvan Heights 9) Video by
Avibirds.
More vidoes
1, 2, 3) Female 4 - 8) Male
Peafowl, Green Pavo muticus Found: southeast Asia
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Haplochromis 2)
Ron Knight 3)
BobIsTraveling - Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park 4)
Frankyboy5
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Phasianus - 1 species
Pheasant,_Common also Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus Found: Asia, Introduced:
North America, Europe, Australia
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Lukasz Lukasik 2)
Banqan 3)
Thermos 4)
Alan D. Wilson - Vernon, British Columbia 5)
Dick Daniels - Scotland 6)
Sandy Cole - Sandwich, NH 7)
Cristiano Crolle
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male
Genus Polyplectron
Peacock-pheasants are not genetically related to pheasants and only distantly to peafowl. Their closest allies are the
Asiatic spurfowl and the crimson-headed partridge, endemic to Borneo. These three genera share the curious tendency for multiple metatarsal spurs. Though they are somewhat divergent morphologically, their skeletons are nearly identical.
Pheasant,_Bornean_Peacock- Polyplectron schleiermacheri Found: Borneo
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1)
Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
Pheasant,_Bronze-tailed_Peacock- Polyplectron chalcurum Found: Indonesia
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1)
John_Booth
Pheasant,_Germain's_Peacock- Polyplectron germaini Found: Vietnam
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1)
Hume_amd_Marshall 2)
Silvain_de_Munck 3)
Jeroen_Kransen
Pheasant,_Gray_Peacock- Polyplectron bicalcaratum Found: southeast Asia
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1)
Tony_Hisgett 2)
Kispal_Attila 3)
Hiyashi_Haka
Pheasant,_Hainin_Peacock- Polyplectron katsumatae Found: island of Hainin (China)
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1)
jan_veenstra
Pheasant,_Malayan_Peacock- Polyplectron malacense Found: Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
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1)
A Davey 2)
Stavenn 3)
David_Cook
Pheasant,_Mountain_Peacock- Polyplectron inopinatum Found: Malay Peninsula
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1, 2) Josh_More 3)
David_Cook - Malaysia 4)
Stavenn - Bronx Zoo
Pheasant,_Palawan_Peacock- Polyplectron napoleonis Found: Philippines
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Stavenn 2)
Francesco_Veronesi 3)
Dante_Alighieri 4)
Dick Daniels - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
1) Female 2 - 4) Male
Genus Pucrasia - 1 species
Pheasant,_Koklass Pucrasia macrolopha Found: high altitudes of Himalayas
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Sheila_Mary_Castelino 2)
Alastair_Rae - China
1) Female 2) Male
Genus Rheinardia- 1 species
Argus,_Crested Rheinardia ocellata Found: Vietnam
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Nguyer_Thanh_Quang 2)
Diego_Delso
Genus Syrmaticus
The males have long tails, usually red facial wattles, short spurs. Female are drab brown.
Pheasant,_Copper Syrmaticus soemmerringii Found: Japan
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1, 2) nkenji 3)
Ken
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Pheasant,_Elliot's Syrmaticus ellioti Found: southeast China
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Brendan_Ryan 2)
Joel Dinda 3)
Snowyowls
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Pheasant,_Hume's Syrmaticus humiae Found: China, India, Bhuma, Thailand
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Donkey_shot 2, 3) Jerry_Oldenettel 4)
Nick_Athanas - Thailand
2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pheasant,_Mikado Syrmaticus mikado Found: Taiwan
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KC_Hung 2, 3) Robert Tdc 4)
Hiyashi
Haka
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pheasant,_Reeves's Syrmaticus reevesii Found: Asia
Image by:
1, 3, 4, 5) Dick Daniels -
Sylvan Heights 2)
Sandy Cole -
Sylvan Heights
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5) Male
Genus Tetraogallus
The snowcocks are ground-nesting birds that breed in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia from the Caucasus to the Himalayas and western China. . Snowcocks feed on plants and plant seeds.
Snowcock,_Altai Tetraogallus altaicus Found: China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia
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1)
Ogilvie-Grant 2)
Tumendelger_Khumbaa
Snowcock,_Caspian Tetraogallus caspius Found: Azerbaijan , Armenia, Iran, Turkey
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Jonathan_Cardy 2)
John_Gould Georgian_Post
Snowcock,_Caucasian Tetraogallus caucasicus Found: Russia, Turkey
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Martinov
Snowcock,_Himalayan Tetraogallus himalayensis Found: North America (introduced Nevada), Asia
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Sergey Yeliseev 2)
Alastair Rae 3)
Imran_Shah
Snowcock,_Tibetan Tetraogallus tibetanus Found: Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau
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McKay Savage - Nepal 2)
Pietro Columba - Nepal 3)
Craig Taylor 4)
Donald_Macauley - Nepal
Genus Tragopan
Tragopan, Blyth's Tragopan blythii Found: Asia
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Nathan Rupert 2)
Andrew_Nicholson 3)
JoJan
Tragopan, Cabot's Tragopan caboti Found: southeast China
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Fenix_21 2
) Dick Daniels - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle 3)
Nathan Rupert 4)
characters
Tragopan,_Satyr Tragopan satyra Found: Asia
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Cloudtail the Snow Leopard 2)
Frank Vincentz 3)
Kuribo 4)
Sarah Gadd 5)
Rejaul karim.rk - India
1) female 2) Juvenile male 3, 4, 5) Male
Tragopan, Temminck's Tragopan temminckii Found: Asia
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Pan Weterynarz 2)
Doug Janson 3)
Dick Daniels - Washington National Zoo
Tragopan,_Western Tragopan melanocephalus Found: Himalayas of Asia
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Daniel_Elliot 2)
John_Cordor
Genus Meleagris
Turkey, Ocellated Meleagris ocellata Found: Central America
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels - San Diego Zoo 3)
Sandy Cole - San Diego Zoo 4)
Dennis Jarvis - Guatemala 5)
George_Harrison
Turkey, Wild Meleagris gallopavo Found: North America, introduced elsewhere
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels - North Carolina
4, 5, 6) Dick - New Hampshire 7)
Dick - Hawaii 8)
Dick -
Sylvan Heights
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