Turkeys, Quails and Allies

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Category Description:

Often referred to as gamebirds or gamefowl, the order of Galliformes encompasses gallinaceous or chickenlike birds including chickens, turkeys, grouse, chickens, quails, and pheasants.

  • Animal Diversity Web: Order Galliformes  - Characteristics of the order, with pictures, specimens, sounds and classification details. Includes members of the order with similar detail on each.
  • Birding.in: Galliformes, Phasianidae  - Describes the species found in India, including the Red Junglefowl, the ancestor of the domestic chicken.
  • Earthlife: Galliformes  - Introduces the three families of game birds known collectively as Galliformes.
  • FeatherSite: Wild Turkeys  - Collection of photographs of wild turkeys plus links.
  • Gbwf.com  - Site dedicated to the aviculture and conservation of Galliformes (game birds) and Anseriformes (water fowl). Species accounts, organizations and links.
  • The Internet Bird Collection: Galliformes  - With basic facts, videos and photographs of megapodes or moundbuilders, chachalacas, guans and curassows, turkeys, grouse, new world quails, pheasants and partridges, and guineafowl.
  • NatureWorks: Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo  - Characteristics, range and habitat, diet and behaviour.
  • RSPB: Partridges, Quails, Pheasants and Allies  - Introduces the family and provides pages on the birds regularly found in the UK. Includes the golden pheasant, Lady Amherst's pheasant, the quail and the partridge.
  • The World Pheasant Association  - Aims to develop and promote the conservation of all Galliformes, including partridges, grouse, quail, francolins, megapodes and cracids. Journal, conservation breeding, projects and members' area.
 
 
 
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