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(‘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’)
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(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 group has about 290 species, one or more of which are found in essentially every part of the world’s continents (except for the innermost deserts and perpetual ice))
(they are rarer on islands, and in contrast to the closely related waterfowl, are essentially absent from oceanic islands—unless introduced there by humans)
(several species have been domesticated during their long and extensive relationships with humans)
(this order contains 5 families: ‘phasianidae’ (including ‘chicken’, ‘quail’, ‘partridges’, ‘pheasants’, ‘turkeys’, ‘peafowl’, and ‘grouse’), ‘odontophoridae’ (‘New World quails’), ‘Numididae’ (‘guineafowl’), ‘Cracidae’ (including ‘chachalacas’ and ‘curassows’), and ‘Megapodiidae’ (‘incubator birds’ like ‘mallee fowl’ and ‘brush-turkeys’))
(they are important as ‘seed dispersers’ and ‘predators’ in the ecosystems they inhabit, and are often reared as game birds by humans for their meat and eggs and for recreational hunting)
(many gallinaceous species are skilled runners and escape predators by running rather than flying)
(males of most species are more colorful than the females)
(males often have elaborate courtship behaviors that include ‘strutting’, ‘fluffing of tail or head feathers’, and ‘vocal sounds’)
(they are mainly ‘non-migratory’)
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