- ground-feeding
birds that
includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and
other landfowl.
Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are
important in
their ecosystems...
-
Flightless birds are
birds that
cannot fly, as they have,
through evolution, lost the
ability to.
There are over 60
extant species,
including the well-known...
- grouse, wood****,
prairie chicken, chukar, grey partridge, and
other landfowls.
Unlike aquatic and
semiaquatic bird
species (waterfowls and s****birds)...
-
birds belonging to one of two
biological orders,
namely the
gamefowl or
landfowl (Galliformes) and the
waterfowl (Anseriformes).
Anatomical and molecular...
- (Horsfield, 1821) are a
subfamily of the
pheasant family (Phasianidae) of
landfowl, the
order Galliformes. The
subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans...
-
Galloanserae (
landfowl and waterfowl)
Neoaves (all
other birds including perching birds)...
- Braun,
Edward L. & Groth,
Jeffrey G. (2006a): "Supra-generic
cladistics of
landfowl (Order Galliformes)". Acta
Zoologica Sinica 52(Supplement): 358–361. PDF...
-
Anseriformes (waterfowls)
Galliformes (
landfowls- gamebirds)...
- Braun,
Edward L. (2021-05-01). "A
phylogenomic supermatrix of
Galliformes (
Landfowl)
reveals biased branch lengths".
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution...
- Braun,
Edward L. (2021-05-01). "A
phylogenomic supermatrix of
Galliformes (
Landfowl)
reveals biased branch lengths".
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution...
