order Galliformes

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Related to order Galliformes: order Passeriformes, order Columbiformes, order Anseriformes

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order Galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins

Galliformes

animal order - the order of animals

Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds

gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

family Meleagrididae, Meleagrididae - turkeys and some extinct forms

family Tetraonidae, Tetraonidae - grouse

Cracidae, family Cracidae - curassows; guans; chachalacas

family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae - megapodes

family Phasianidae, Phasianidae - pheasants; quails; partridges

family Opisthocomidae, Opisthocomidae - comprising the hoatzins

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Monal pheasant (Himalayan Monal, Lophophorus impejanus; Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes), distributed throughout the Himalayan mountain system, considered as the most significant bio-geographical zones, is well recognized for its ecological, cultural, and esthetic values (Kaul and Shakya, 2001; Seth, 2019).

DISTRIBUTION AND POPULATION STATUS OF HIMALAYAN MONAL PHEASANT (LOPHOPHORUSIMPEJANUS) IN SALKHALA GAME RESERVE, NEELUM VALLEY AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR (PAKISTAN)

The quail belongs to the class Aves, order Galliformes, family Phasianidae and kingdom Animalia [1].

PERFORMANCE OF GROWING JAPANESE QUAILS (COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA) FED DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PEELED COOKED SUN-DRIED SWEET POTATO (IPOMEA BATATAS) MEAL DIETS

Histomoniasis is a disease almost exclusively of birds in the order Galliformes, but Histomonas has been reported from the intestinal tracts of burrowing owls in Brazil and a common buzzard (Buteo buteo) in Turkey (Davidson, 2008; Ozmen et al., 2009; Andery et al., 2013).

Protozoal hepatitis in a western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea)

(18) Six of these cases were lymphoma, and most were birds from the order Galliformes (peacock [Pavo species], chicken, and tragopan [Tragopan species]).

Bilateral uveitis and hyphema in a Catalina macaw (Ara ararauna X Ara macao) with multicentric lymphoma

It is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae.

The pheasant who came to tea; Golden visitor tame enough to be hand-fed

The red junglefowl (order Galliformes) is referred as the ancestor bird of local poultry (Darwin, 1875).

Effect of arthropods abundance on the red junglefowl population in oil palm plantation habitat