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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
The green junglefowl (Gallus varius), also known as Javan junglefowl, forktail or green Javanese junglefowl, is the most distantly related and the first to diverge at least 4 million years ago among the four species of the junglefowl. Hybridization with domestic chicken has also been reported. Green junglefowl is a medium-sized (up to 75 cm long) bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Green Junglefowl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.