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Green Junglefowl

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Green Junglefowl

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Also known as Gallus varius

species of bird

Species

Least Concern

via IUCN

~5 min read

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.

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