Gallini is a tribe of bird in the subfamily Phasianinae. It includes the bamboo partridges, francolins and junglefowl (including the chicken). Members...
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Gallini may refer to: Gallini (surname), an Italian surname Gallini (bird), a tribe of gamebirds including francolins, bamboo partridges, and junglefowl...
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The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America. There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)...
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Francolinus (category Bird genera)
Francolinus is a genus of birds in the francolin group of the tribe Gallini in the pheasant family. Its three species range from western Asia and central...
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Melanesia) Phasianidae – Pheasants and Allies Extinct species of extant genera Gallini – Francolins and Junglefowl Gallus – Junglefowl Gallus sp. (Middle/Late...
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Peafowl (redirect from White peacock (bird))
Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus Pavo and one species of the closely related genus Afropavo within the tribe Pavonini of the...
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of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol...
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Galliformes (redirect from Game Bird)
peacock-pheasants, Asian spurfowl, and crimson-headed partridge Tribe Gallini Brehm 1831 – junglefowl, bamboo partridges, and true francolins Tribe Coturnicini...
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Kalij pheasant (category Birds of the Himalayas)
Kalij Pheasant as bird of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The name is also spelled kaleege in old texts, such as Game Birds of India and Asia...
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List of herbivorous animals (redirect from Herbivorous bird)
overall, and another finds green peafowl diets to be ~96% herbivorous The Gallini are largely omnivores which lean moderately to very herbivorous, though...
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Francolin (category Gallini)
Francolins are birds in the tribe Gallini that traditionally have been placed in the genus Francolinus, but now commonly are divided into multiple genera...
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Latham's francolin (category Gallini)
francolin (Peliperdix lathami) or the forest francolin, is a species of bird in the francolin group of the family Phasianidae. It is the only member of...
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Colinus (redirect from Bobwhite bird)
Colinus is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. Members of the genus are commonly known as bobwhites. †Colinus eatoni †Colinus...
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Mitu is a genus of curassows, large birds in the family Cracidae. They are found in humid tropical forests in South America. Their plumage is iridescent...
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Scleroptila (category Bird genera)
Scleroptila is a genus of birds in the francolin group of the tribe Gallini of the pheasant family. Its eight species range through Sub-Saharan Africa...
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Malleefowl (category Birds described in 1840)
The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It...
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Singing quail (category Birds of Central America)
The singing quail (Dactylortyx thoracicus) is a species of bird in the family Odontophoridae, the New World quail. It is found in Belize, El Salvador,...
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Common pheasant (category Birds of Asia)
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus, "pheasant". The species...
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Nocturnal curassow (category Birds of the Amazon rainforest)
The nocturnal curassow (Nothocrax urumutum) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in Brazil,...
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Bekisar (category Bird hybrids)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Tribe: Gallini Genus: Gallus Species: G. varius × G. gallus...
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Indian peafowl (redirect from National Bird of India)
peafowl is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It is the national bird of India and venerated in Hindu and Greek mythology. Carl Linnaeus in his...
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Banded quail (category Endemic birds of Mexico)
The banded quail (Philortyx fasciatus) is a species of bird in the family Odontophoridae. It is found only in Mexico where its natural habitats are subtropical...
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Penelope is a bird genus in the family Cracidae consisting of a number of large turkey-like arboreal species, the typical guans. The range of these species...
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Edwards's pheasant (category Endemic birds of Vietnam)
Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) is a bird of the pheasant family Phasianidae and is endemic to the seasonal tropical forests of central Vietnam....
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Wattled guan (category Birds of the Northern Andes)
The wattled guan (Aburria aburri) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae. It is a fairly large black cracid with blue-based, black-tipped beak and...
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Gallinuloides (category Bird genera)
Gallinuloides is a prehistoric genus of primitive galliform bird. It lived about 48 million years ago in North America. The type specimen was found in...
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Australian brushturkey (category Endemic birds of Australia)
turkey or bush turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland...
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Tympanuchus (category Bird genera)
Tympanuchus is a small genus of birds in the grouse family. They are commonly referred to as prairie-chickens. The genus Tympanuchus was introduced in...
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Himalayan quail (category Birds of North India)
(1952) records a local bird name sano kalo titra ("small black/dusky partridge") from the Dailekh district of Nepal. The only bird from the general area...
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Chambiortyx (category Prehistoric bird genera)
Chambiortyx is a genus of Galliformes bird. It is known from a fossil of the early Eocene of Tunisia. Mourer-Chauviré et al. (2013) A new taxon of stem...
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