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 LC    Red Junglefowl* Id (Atlas): 902
    Gallus gallus Introduced

Description (10)
Image of Red Junglefowl (Male)
 

Other Names (World)
Red Junglefowl, Feral Chicken, Junglefowl, Domestic Fowl, Chicken

Family
Phasianidae (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse)

Size
40 - 70 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Derivation
Gal'-lus - L., farmyard cock (chicken): gal'-lus - L., farmyard cock (chicken)

Abundance (Guide)
UC

Small colonies, declining.

Habitat
Rainforest, thick scrub and woodland, and areas with open understorey.

Range (Guide)
Bangladesh (B), Bhutan, Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Indonesia (B), Laos (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Pakistan (B), Philippines (B), Puerto Rico, Singapore (B), Thailand (B), Timor-Leste (B) (NB), Vietnam (B).

Introduced to Australia (B), Marshall Islands (B), Micronesia [Federated States of] (B), Nauru (B), Northern Mariana Islands (B), Palau (B), USA (B).

Image of Range of Red Junglefowl
Capricorn Group, Qld, and Norfolk and Cocos - Keeling Islands in the northern Indian Ocean.
 
Rarity Status
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Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Declining.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Grain, shoots of grass and crops, bamboo, sees, tubers, fruits and berries, insects, including grasshoppers and termites, occasionally lizards.

Voice
A high-pitched bantam-like crow and cackles, various clucks, noisiest at dawn.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (167)...)

 
Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) [XC857110]
     by Sam Hambly from Ketam Mangroves, Pulau Ubin, Singapore, Singapore (song)

 
Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) [XC124406]
     by Tero Linjama from Tmat Boey, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (song)

Breeding Season (Guide)
Not well known, but probably August - December.

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Nest
Usually on the ground among fallen tree trunks or up in a cavity in the base of a large Pisonia.

Eggs (Guide)
10 - 13; white.

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Grey Junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) and Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii).

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • murghi Robinson & Kloss, 1920   -  Northern & north-eastern India, adjacent Nepal and Bangladesh.
  • spadiceus (Bonnaterre, 1792)   -  Central-southern China (south-western Yunnan), Burma, Thailand (not east), Peninsular Malaysia and northern Sumatra.
  • jabouillei Delacour & Kinnear, 1928   -  Central-southern China (south-eastern Yunnan, Guangxi and Hainan), northern Vietnam.
  • gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Eastern Thailand through Kampuchea and central & southern Laos to central & southern Vietnam.
  • bankiva Temminck, 1813   -  Southern Sumatra, Java and Bali.



References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9


Files:
JPG files for Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) - 10 filesMP3 files for Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) - 2 files


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