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Discussion in 'Quizzes, Competitions & Games' started by ThylacineAlive, 3 Jan 2014.

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  1. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Yes but was it a domestic form?

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
  2. animal explorer

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    it was just a common chicken ...
     
  3. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    According to ztl Attica Park doesn't have the wild form of Gallus gallus so it doesn't count unfortunately.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
  4. animal explorer

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    oh ok :) i knew it .. i said it was common chicken
     
  5. Cian bennett

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    My list so far
    Common pheasant
    Himalayan monal pheasant
    Reeves pheasant
    Golden pheasant
    Lady amherts pheasant
    Satyr trapogon
    Palawan peacock pheasant

    I dont know if these are part of phasaianinae but here is some more i have seen
    Helmeted guineafowl
    Indian peafowl
    Bobwhite quail
    Wild turkey
    Red junglefowl
    Western capercaillie
     
  6. DDcorvus

    DDcorvus Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    And I am joining as well:

    1) Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
    2) Great argus pheasant (Argusianus argus)
    3) Siamese fireback pheasant (Lophura diardi)
    4) Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
    5) Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus)
    6) Brown-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum)
    7) Cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichii)
    8) Blue-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum)
    9) Vulturine guinefowl (Acryllium vulturinum)

    And I saw Helmeted guinefowl but unfortunately domesticated so it doesn't count. Blue peafowl will be interesting which do we count as domesticated and which we don't.
     
  7. zoogiraffe

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    I might as well give this one a shoot as well,

    1) Roul Roul Partridge
    2) Congo Peafowl
    3) Himalayan Monal
    4) Lady Amherst Pheasant
    5) Palawan Peacock Pheasant
    6) Salvadori's Pheasant
    7) Great Argus Pheasant
    8) Red-billed Currasow
    9) Kenyan Crested Guineafowl
    10) Germains Peacock Pheasant
    11) Grey Peacock Pheasant
    12) Cheer Pheasant
    13) Elliot's Pheasant
    14) Golden Pheasant
    15) Indian Peafowl
    16) Koklass Pheasant
    17) White-crested Kalij Pheasant
    18) Mikado Pheasant
    19) Mrs Humes Pheasant
    20) Reeves Pheasant
    21) Swinhoes Pheasant
    22) Vietnamese Pheasant
    23) Satyr Tragopan
    24) Common Ring-necked Pheasant
     
  8. DDcorvus

    DDcorvus Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Are we counting Currasows? If so I can add some additional species to the list :).
     
  9. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    2014 Zoochat.....

    Blue Peafowl, Green Peafowl, Temminck's Tragopan, Himalayan Monal, Golden Pheasant, Lady Amherst 's Pheasant, Reeves' Pheasant, Elliott's Pheasant, Hume's Pheasant, Swinhoe's Pheasant, White Eared Pheasant, Great Argus, Palawan Peacock Pheasant, Crested Guineafowl, Vulturine Guineafowl, Madagascar Partridge, Collared Hill Partridge.
     
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    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    My reading of it was any galliformes but Thylo is the man to confirm if they count!
     
  11. bongorob

    bongorob Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I have the same as zoogiraffe plus Chinese Bamboo Partridge and Sonnerat's Junglefowl.
     
  12. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Yes the competition is all Galliformes so curassows and other Cracidae count.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
  13. vogelcommando

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    What about subspecies, there are quite a number of recognizble subspecies within this family ?
     
  14. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Well let's keep this like the UK Challenge so no, they are not.


    ~Thylo:cool:
     
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    bongorob Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Saw red junglefowl today.
     
  16. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    My list so far this year:

    1) Californian quail (Lophortyx californica)
    2) Gambel's quail (Lophortyx gambelii)
    3) Bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata)
    4) Great curassow (Crax rubra)
    5) Northern Helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi pauxi)
    6) Red-billed curassow (Crax blumenbachii)
    7) Venezuelan blue-throated piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis cumanensis)
    8) Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata)
    9) Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum)
    10) Congo Peafowl (Afropavo congensis)
    11) Grey Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum)
    12) Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
    13) Javanese Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus muticus)
    14) Malaysian Great Argus (Argusianus argus argus)
    15) Palawan Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis)
    16) Berlioz's silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera berliozi)
    17) Blue-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum)
    18) Brown-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum)
    19) Cabot's tragopan (Tragopan caboti)
    20) Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichii)
    21) Elliot's pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti)
    22) Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
    23) Himalayan monal pheasant (Lophophorus impejanus)
    24) Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha)
    25) Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)
    26) Malayan crested fireback (Lophura ignita rufa)
    27) Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado)
    28) Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)
    29) Salvadori's pheasant (Lophura inornata)
    30) Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra)
    31) Scintillating cooper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii scintillans)
    32) Siamese fireback pheasant (Lophura diardi)
    33) Swinhoe's pheasant (Lophura swinhoii)
    34) Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii)
    35) Tibetan white-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon drouynii)
    36) Vietnamese pheasant (Lophura hatinhensis)
    37) Grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii)
    38) Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
    39) Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii)
    40) Arabian chukar partridge (Alectoris melanocephala)
    41) Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis)
    42) Black francolin (Francolinus francolinus)
    43) Chinese Bamboo-partridge (Bambusicola thoracica)
    44) Crested wood partridge (Rollulus rouloul)
    45) Harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei)
    46) Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis)
    47) Mountain Bamboo-partridge (Bambusicola fytchii)
    48) Philby's rock partridge (Alectoris philbyi)
    49) Stone partridge (Ptilopachus petrosus)
    50) Kenya crested Guineafowl (Guttera pucherani pucherani)
    51) Natal Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris coronatus)

    The majority of those are from my recent trip to Germany, of course :)
     
  17. DDcorvus

    DDcorvus Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Nice list. It's time I visit Antwerp Zoo and increase my own :p.
     
  18. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Okay I have found some time to compile my entry.


    Seen this year in the following zoos (listed in order of visitation): Yadanabon Zoo [Mandalay, Burma], Naypyitaw Zoo [Burma], Dusit Zoo [Bangkok, Thailand], Alipore Zoo [Kolkata, India], Assam State Zoo [Guwahati, India], Chiang Mai Zoo [Thailand], Penang Bird Park [Malaysia]).


    Not including domestic chickens or domestic turkeys. (But I have included helmeted guineafowl).


    1) Californian Quail (Penang)
    2) Bobwhite (Penang)
    3) Scaled Quail (Penang)

    4) Blue-breasted Quail (Penang)
    5) Chukar (Penang)
    6) Roulroul (Penang)

    7) Great Argus (Chiang Mai, Penang)
    8) Grey Peacock-pheasant (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Kolkata, Penang)
    9) Palawan Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    10) Rothschild's Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    11) Malayan Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    12) Ring-necked Pheasant (Naypyitaw, Bangkok, Kolkata, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    13) Green Pheasant (Penang)
    14) Golden Pheasant (Mandalay, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    15) Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Kolkata, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    16) Reeves' Pheasant (Penang)
    17) Silver Pheasant (Mandalay, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    18) Kalij Pheasant (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    19) Edward's Pheasant (Penang)
    20) Siamese Fireback (Chiang Mai, Penang)
    21) Crested Fireback (Penang)
    22) Crestless Fireback (Penang)
    23) Indian Peafowl (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    24) Green Peafowl (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Chiang Mai)
    25) Red Junglefowl (Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    26) Green Junglefowl (Penang)

    27) Vulturine Guineafowl (Chiang Mai, Penang)
    28) Kenya Crested Guineafowl (Penang)
    29) Helmeted Guineafowl (Naypyitaw, Guwahati)

    30) Great Curassow (Penang)
     
  19. BeardsleyZooFan

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    1. Indian Peafowl
    2. Helmeted Guineafowl
    3. Great Argus Pheasant
    4. Kenya Crested Guineafowl
    5. Wild Turkey
     
  20. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    four more species added today at Jurong Bird Park. Annoyingly the Southeas tAsia aviary was closed for renovations and that of course is where most of their phasianids are kept!

    Seen this year in the following zoos (listed in order of visitation): Yadanabon Zoo [Mandalay, Burma], Naypyitaw Zoo [Burma], Dusit Zoo [Bangkok, Thailand], Alipore Zoo [Kolkata, India], Assam State Zoo [Guwahati, India], Chiang Mai Zoo [Thailand], Penang Bird Park [Malaysia], River Safari [Singapore], Jurong Bird Park [Singapore].


    Not including domestic chickens or domestic turkeys. (But I have included helmeted guineafowl).


    1) Californian Quail (Penang, Jurong)
    2) Gambel's Quail (Jurong)
    3) Bobwhite (Penang)
    4) Scaled Quail (Penang)

    5) Blue-breasted Quail (Penang)
    6) Chukar (Penang)
    7) Red-legged Partridge (Jurong)
    8) Hildebrandt's Francolin (Jurong)
    9) White-necklaced Partridge (Arborophila gingica) (Jurong)
    10) Roulroul (Penang, Jurong)

    11) Great Argus (Chiang Mai, Penang)
    12) Grey Peacock-pheasant (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Kolkata, Penang)
    13) Palawan Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    14) Rothschild's Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    15) Malayan Peacock-pheasant (Penang)
    16) Ring-necked Pheasant (Naypyitaw, Bangkok, Kolkata, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    17) Green Pheasant (Penang)
    18) Golden Pheasant (Mandalay, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang, River Safari)
    19) Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Kolkata, Chiang Mai, Penang, Jurong)
    20) Reeves' Pheasant (Penang)
    21) Silver Pheasant (Mandalay, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    22) Kalij Pheasant (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    23) Edward's Pheasant (Penang)
    24) Siamese Fireback (Chiang Mai, Penang)
    25) Crested Fireback (Penang)
    26) Crestless Fireback (Penang)
    27) Indian Peafowl (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Bangkok, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang, Jurong)
    28) Green Peafowl (Mandalay, Naypyitaw, Chiang Mai, Jurong)
    29) Red Junglefowl (Kolkata, Guwahati, Chiang Mai, Penang)
    30) Green Junglefowl (Penang)

    31) Vulturine Guineafowl (Chiang Mai, Penang, Jurong)
    32) Kenya Crested Guineafowl (Penang, Jurong)
    33) Helmeted Guineafowl (Naypyitaw, Guwahati, Jurong)

    34) Great Curassow (Penang)
     
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