Landfowl
Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae. The name derives from "gallus", Latin for "cock" or "rooster". Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds, or galliforms. "Wildfowl" or just "fowl" are also often used for the Galliformes, but usually these terms also refer to waterfowl (Anseriformes), and occasionally to other commonly hunted birds. This...
8 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 306 known species
Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies
familyPhasianidae
New World Quails
familyOdontophoridae
Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows
familyCracidae
Guineafowl
familyNumididae
Megapodes
familyMegapodiidae
Helmeted Guineafowl × Peafowl
genushybridNumida × Pavo
Sylviornithids
familySylviornithidae
Junglefowl × Helmeted Guineafowl
genushybridGallus × Numida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 573.