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Order: Galliformes
5 families, 306 species (2 extinct)
Family #009
Megapodes (Megapodiidae)
- Species: 21
- Distribution: Australasia & Indomalaya
- IOC family #009, HBW family #006, H&M family #009
- wf253 status: 59% members ticked
- OH: 3 seen and photographed, first seen in Australia, 2013
| Australian Brushturkey | Alectura lathami | .. |
| Wattled Brushturkey | Aepypodius arfakianus | |
| Waigeo Brushturkey | Aepypodius bruijnii | |
| Red-billed Brushturkey | Talegalla cuvieri | |
| Yellow-legged Brushturkey | Talegalla fuscirostris | .. |
| Red-legged Brushturkey | Talegalla jobiensis | |
| Malleefowl | Leipoa ocellata | |
| Maleo | Macrocephalon maleo | |
| Moluccan Megapode | Eulipoa wallacei | |
| Tongan Megapode | Megapodius pritchardii | |
| Micronesian Megapode | Megapodius laperouse | |
| Nicobar Megapode | Megapodius nicobariensis | |
| Philippine Megapode | Megapodius cumingii | |
| Sula Megapode | Megapodius bernsteinii | |
| Tanimbar Megapode | Megapodius tenimberensis | |
| Dusky Megapode | Megapodius freycinet | |
| Biak Megapode | Megapodius geelvinkianus | |
| Melanesian Megapode | Megapodius eremita | |
| Vanuatu Megapode | Megapodius layardi | |
| New Guinea Megapode | Megapodius decollatus | |
| Orange-footed Megapode | Megapodius reinwardt | .. |
1 Yellow-legged Brushturkey, Papua New Guinea; 2 Australian Brush-Turkey, Australia; 3 Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Australia
Family #010
Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows (Cracidae)
- Species: 57
- Distribution: Neotropic & Nearctic
- IOC family #010, HBW family #007, H&M family #010
- wf253 status: 85% members ticked
- OH: 9 seen, 8 photographed, first seen in Brazil, 2009
| Plain Chachalaca | Ortalis vetula | .. |
| Gray-headed Chachalaca | Ortalis cinereiceps | .. |
| Chestnut-winged Chachalaca | Ortalis garrula | |
| Rufous-vented Chachalaca | Ortalis ruficauda | |
| Rufous-headed Chachalaca | Ortalis erythroptera | |
| Rufous-bellied Chachalaca | Ortalis wagleri | |
| West Mexican Chachalaca | Ortalis poliocephala | |
| Chaco Chachalaca | Ortalis canicollis | .. |
| White-bellied Chachalaca | Ortalis leucogastra | |
| Colombian Chachalaca | Ortalis columbiana | |
| Speckled Chachalaca | Ortalis guttata | .. |
| East Brazilian Chachalaca | Ortalis araucuan | |
| Scaled Chachalaca | Ortalis squamata | |
| Variable Chachalaca | Ortalis motmot | |
| Chestnut-headed Chachalaca | Ortalis ruficeps | |
| Buff-browed Chachalaca | Ortalis superciliaris | |
| Band-tailed Guan | Penelope argyrotis | |
| Bearded Guan | Penelope barbata | |
| Baudo Guan | Penelope ortoni | |
| Andean Guan | Penelope montagnii | |
| Marail Guan | Penelope marail | |
| Rusty-margined Guan | Penelope superciliaris | |
| Red-faced Guan | Penelope dabbenei | |
| Spix’s Guan | Penelope jacquacu | |
| Crested Guan | Penelope purpurascens | |
| Cauca Guan | Penelope perspicax | |
| White-winged Guan | Penelope albipennis | |
| Dusky-legged Guan | Penelope obscura | .. |
| Yungas Guan | Penelope bridgesi | |
| White-crested Guan | Penelope pileata | |
| Chestnut-bellied Guan | Penelope ochrogaster | .. |
| White-browed Guan | Penelope jacucaca | |
| Trinidad Piping-Guan | Pipile pipile | |
| Blue-throated Piping-Guan | Pipile cumanensis | |
| White-throated Piping-Guan | Pipile grayi | |
| Red-throated Piping-Guan | Pipile cujubi | |
| Black-fronted Piping-Guan | Pipile jacutinga | .. |
| Wattled Guan | Aburria aburri | |
| Black Guan | Chamaepetes unicolor | .. |
| Sickle-winged Guan | Chamaepetes goudotii | . |
| Highland Guan | Penelopina nigra | |
| Horned Guan | Oreophasis derbianus | |
| Nocturnal Curassow | Nothocrax urumutum | |
| Crestless Curassow | Mitu tomentosum | |
| Salvin’s Curassow | Mitu salvini | |
| Razor-billed Curassow | Mitu tuberosum | |
| Alagoas Curassow | Mitu mitu | |
| Helmeted Curassow | Pauxi pauxi | |
| Sira Curassow | Pauxi koepckeae | |
| Horned Curassow | Pauxi unicornis | |
| Great Curassow | Crax rubra | |
| Blue-billed Curassow | Crax alberti | |
| Yellow-knobbed Curassow | Crax daubentoni | |
| Black Curassow | Crax alector | |
| Wattled Curassow | Crax globulosa | |
| Bare-faced Curassow | Crax fasciolata | |
| Red-billed Curassow | Crax blumenbachii |
1 Speckled Chachalaca, Peru; 2 Chaco Chachalaca, Brazil; 3 Plain Chachalaca, USA; 4 Dusky-legged Guan, Brazil; 5 Chestnut-bellied Guan, Brazil; 6 Black-fronted Piping-Guan, Brazil; 7 Gray-headed Chachalaca, Panama; 8 Black Guan, Ecuador
Family #011
Guineafowl (Numididae)
- Species: 8
- Distribution: Afrotropical Endemic
- IOC family #011, HBW family #008, H&M family #011
- wf253 status: 82% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen, 2 photographed, first seen in Kenya, 1983
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | .. |
| White-breasted Guineafowl | Agelastes meleagrides | |
| Black Guineafowl | Agelastes niger | |
| Vulturine Guineafowl | Acryllium vulturinum | . |
| Plumed Guineafowl | Guttera plumifera | |
| Eastern Crested Guineafowl | Guttera pucherani | |
| Western Crested Guineafowl | Guttera verreauxi | .. |
| Southern Crested Guineafowl | Guttera edouardi | . |
1 Helmeted Guineafowl, South Africa; 2 Western Crested Guineafow, Uganda
Family #012
New World Quail (Odontophoridae)
- Species: 34
- Distribution: Neotropic, Nearctic & Afrotropical
- IOC family #012, HBW family #009, H&M family #012
- wf253 status: 83% members ticked
- OH: 5 seen, 3 photographed, first seen in USA, 2002
| Stone Partridge | Ptilopachus petrosus | |
| Nahan’s Partridge | Ptilopachus nahani | |
| Tawny-faced Quail | Rhynchortyx cinctus | |
| Mountain Quail | Oreortyx pictus | |
| Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge | Dendrortyx leucophrys | |
| Long-tailed Wood-Partridge | Dendrortyx macroura | |
| Bearded Wood-Partridge | Dendrortyx barbatus | |
| Banded Quail | Philortyx fasciatus | |
| Northern Bobwhite | Colinus virginianus | . |
| Black-throated Bobwhite | Colinus nigrogularis | |
| Spot-bellied Bobwhite | Colinus leucopogon | |
| Crested Bobwhite | Colinus cristatus | |
| Scaled Quail | Callipepla squamata | |
| Elegant Quail | Callipepla douglasii | |
| California Quail | Callipepla californica | .. |
| Gambel’s Quail | Callipepla gambelii | .. |
| Montezuma Quail | Cyrtonyx montezumae | . |
| Ocellated Quail | Cyrtonyx ocellatus | |
| Singing Quail | Dactylortyx thoracicus | |
| Marbled Wood-Quail | Odontophorus gujanensis | |
| Spot-winged Wood-Quail | Odontophorus capueira | . |
| Black-eared Wood-Quail | Odontophorus melanotis | |
| Black-fronted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus atrifrons | |
| Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus erythrops | |
| Chestnut Wood-Quail | Odontophorus hyperythrus | |
| Dark-backed Wood-Quail | Odontophorus melanonotus | .. |
| Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus speciosus | |
| Tacarcuna Wood-Quail | Odontophorus dialeucos | |
| Gorgeted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus strophium | |
| Venezuelan Wood-Quail | Odontophorus columbianus | |
| Black-breasted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus leucolaemus | |
| Stripe-faced Wood-Quail | Odontophorus balliviani | |
| Starred Wood-Quail | Odontophorus stellatus | |
| Spotted Wood-Quail | Odontophorus guttatus |
1 California Quail, USA; 2 Dark-backed Wood-Quail, Ecuador; 3 Gambel’s Quail, USA
Family #013
Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies (Phasianidae)
- Species: 186 (2 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #013 (Pheasants & Allies), HBW family #010 (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse), H&M family #013 (Partridges, Quail, Pheasants and Grouse)
- wf253 status: 98% members ticked
- OH: 45 seen, 36 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1976
| Udzungwa Partridge | Xenoperdix udzungwensis | |
| Ferruginous Partridge | Caloperdix oculeus | |
| Crested Partridge | Rollulus rouloul | .. |
| Black Partridge | Melanoperdix niger | |
| Hill Partridge | Arborophila torqueola | |
| Sichuan Partridge | Arborophila rufipectus | |
| Chestnut-breasted Partridge | Arborophila mandellii | |
| White-necklaced Partridge | Arborophila gingica | |
| Rufous-throated Partridge | Arborophila rufogularis | .. |
| Red-billed Partridge | Arborophila rubrirostris | |
| Chestnut-headed Partridge | Arborophila cambodiana | |
| Hainan Partridge | Arborophila ardens | |
| Taiwan Partridge | Arborophila crudigularis | |
| White-cheeked Partridge | Arborophila atrogularis | |
| Bar-backed Partridge | Arborophila brunneopectus | |
| Orange-necked Partridge | Arborophila davidi | |
| Red-breasted Partridge | Arborophila hyperythra | .. |
| Malayan Partridge | Arborophila campbelli | |
| Roll’s Partridge | Arborophila rolli | |
| Sumatran Partridge | Arborophila sumatrana | |
| Chestnut-bellied Partridge | Arborophila javanica | |
| Gray-breasted Partridge | Arborophila orientalis | |
| Snow Partridge | Lerwa lerwa | |
| Blood Pheasant | Ithaginis cruentus | |
| Western Tragopan | Tragopan melanocephalus | |
| Satyr Tragopan | Tragopan satyra | |
| Blyth’s Tragopan | Tragopan blythii | .. |
| Temminck’s Tragopan | Tragopan temminckii | |
| Cabot’s Tragopan | Tragopan caboti | |
| Chestnut-throated Monal-Partridge | Tetraophasis obscurus | |
| Buff-throated Monal-Partridge | Tetraophasis szechenyii | |
| Himalayan Monal | Lophophorus impejanus | |
| Sclater’s Monal | Lophophorus sclateri | |
| Chinese Monal | Lophophorus lhuysii | |
| Koklass Pheasant | Pucrasia macrolopha | |
| Wild Turkey | Meleagris gallopavo | .. |
| Ocellated Turkey | Meleagris ocellata | |
| Ruffed Grouse | Bonasa umbellus | |
| Hazel Grouse | Tetrastes bonasia | . |
| Chinese Grouse | Tetrastes sewerzowi | |
| Greater Sage-Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | |
| Gunnison Sage-Grouse | Centrocercus minimus | |
| Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | |
| Sooty Grouse | Dendragapus fuliginosus | |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | Tympanuchus phasianellus | |
| Greater Prairie-Chicken | Tympanuchus cupido | |
| Lesser Prairie-Chicken | Tympanuchus pallidicinctus | |
| White-tailed Ptarmigan | Lagopus leucura | |
| Willow Ptarmigan | Lagopus lagopus | .. |
| Rock Ptarmigan | Lagopus muta | .. |
| Siberian Grouse | Falcipennis falcipennis | |
| Spruce Grouse | Canachites canadensis | |
| Western Capercaillie | Tetrao urogallus | |
| Black-billed Capercaillie | Tetrao urogalloides | |
| Black Grouse | Lyrurus tetrix | .. |
| Caucasian Grouse | Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi | |
| Long-billed Partridge | Rhizothera longirostris | |
| Dulit Partridge | Rhizothera dulitensis | |
| Tibetan Partridge | Perdix hodgsoniae | |
| Gray Partridge | Perdix perdix | .. |
| Daurian Partridge | Perdix dauurica | .. |
| Copper Pheasant | Syrmaticus soemmerringii | |
| Reeves’s Pheasant | Syrmaticus reevesii | |
| Mikado Pheasant | Syrmaticus mikado | |
| Elliot’s Pheasant | Syrmaticus ellioti | |
| Mrs. Hume’s Pheasant | Syrmaticus humiae | |
| Golden Pheasant | Chrysolophus pictus | |
| Lady Amherst’s Pheasant | Chrysolophus amherstiae | |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | .. |
| Green Pheasant | Phasianus versicolor | |
| Cheer Pheasant | Catreus wallichii | |
| Tibetan Eared-Pheasant | Crossoptilon harmani | |
| White Eared-Pheasant | Crossoptilon crossoptilon | |
| Brown Eared-Pheasant | Crossoptilon mantchuricum | |
| Blue Eared-Pheasant | Crossoptilon auritum | |
| Edwards’s Pheasant | Lophura edwardsi | |
| Swinhoe’s Pheasant | Lophura swinhoii | |
| Bulwer’s Pheasant | Lophura bulweri | .. |
| Kalij Pheasant | Lophura leucomelanos | .. |
| Silver Pheasant | Lophura nycthemera | .. |
| Malayan Crestless Fireback | Lophura erythrophthalma | |
| Bornean Crestless Fireback | Lophura pyronota | |
| Siamese Fireback | Lophura diardi | .. |
| Salvadori’s Pheasant | Lophura inornata | |
| Malayan Crested Fireback | Lophura rufa | |
| Bornean Crested Fireback | Lophura ignita | .. |
| Vietnamese Crested Argus | Rheinardia ocellata | |
| Malayan Crested Argus | Rheinardia nigrescens | |
| Great Argus | Argusianus argus | . |
| Congo Peacock | Afropavo congensis | |
| Indian Peafowl | Pavo cristatus | .. |
| Green Peafowl | Pavo muticus | |
| Scaly-breasted Partridge | Tropicoperdix chloropus | .. |
| Chestnut-necklaced Partridge | Tropicoperdix charltonii | |
| Sabah Partridge | Tropicoperdix graydoni | |
| Crimson-headed Partridge | Haematortyx sanguiniceps | .. |
| Red Spurfowl | Galloperdix spadicea | |
| Painted Spurfowl | Galloperdix lunulata | |
| Sri Lanka Spurfowl | Galloperdix bicalcarata | |
| Palawan Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron napoleonis | |
| Bornean Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron schleiermacheri | .. |
| Malayan Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron malacense | |
| Germain’s Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron germaini | |
| Hainan Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron katsumatae | |
| Gray Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron bicalcaratum | |
| Mountain Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron inopinatum | |
| Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant | Polyplectron chalcurum | |
| Mountain Bamboo-Partridge | Bambusicola fytchii | |
| Chinese Bamboo-Partridge | Bambusicola thoracicus | |
| Taiwan Bamboo-Partridge | Bambusicola sonorivox | |
| Green Junglefowl | Gallus varius | |
| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | .. |
| Gray Junglefowl | Gallus sonneratii | |
| Sri Lanka Junglefowl | Gallus lafayettii | |
| Latham’s Francolin | Peliperdix lathami | .. |
| Crested Francolin | Ortygornis sephaena | .. |
| Gray Francolin | Ortygornis pondicerianus | |
| Swamp Francolin | Ortygornis gularis | |
| Chinese Francolin | Francolinus pintadeanus | |
| Black Francolin | Francolinus francolinus | .. |
| Painted Francolin | Francolinus pictus | |
| Coqui Francolin | Campocolinus coqui | .. |
| White-throated Francolin | Campocolinus albogularis | |
| Schlegel’s Francolin | Campocolinus schlegelii | |
| Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptila streptophora | |
| Red-winged Francolin | Scleroptila levaillantii | |
| Finsch’s Francolin | Scleroptila finschi | |
| Moorland Francolin | Scleroptila psilolaema | |
| Elgon Francolin | Scleroptila elgonensis | |
| Gray-winged Francolin | Scleroptila afra | |
| Orange River Francolin | Scleroptila gutturalis | |
| Shelley’s Francolin | Scleroptila shelleyi | . |
| Whyte’s Francolin | Scleroptila whytei | |
| Tibetan Snowcock | Tetraogallus tibetanus | |
| Altai Snowcock | Tetraogallus altaicus | |
| Caucasian Snowcock | Tetraogallus caucasicus | |
| Caspian Snowcock | Tetraogallus caspius | |
| Himalayan Snowcock | Tetraogallus himalayensis | |
| See-see Partridge | Ammoperdix griseogularis | |
| Sand Partridge | Ammoperdix heyi | .. |
| Brown Quail | Synoicus ypsilophorus | .. |
| Snow Mountain Quail | Synoicus monorthonyx | |
| Blue-breasted Quail | Synoicus chinensis | |
| Blue Quail | Synoicus adansonii | |
| Madagascar Partridge | Margaroperdix madagarensis | .. |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | . |
| Japanese Quail | Coturnix japonica | |
| Harlequin Quail | Coturnix delegorguei | . |
| Rain Quail | Coturnix coromandelica | |
| Stubble Quail | Coturnix pectoralis | .. |
| New Zealand Quail | Coturnix novaezelandiae | exinct |
| Barbary Partridge | Alectoris barbara | |
| Arabian Partridge | Alectoris melanocephala | |
| Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | .. |
| Chukar | Alectoris chukar | .. |
| Rock Partridge | Alectoris graeca | |
| Philby’s Partridge | Alectoris philbyi | |
| Przevalski’s Partridge | Alectoris magna | .. |
| Jungle Bush-Quail | Perdicula asiatica | |
| Rock Bush-Quail | Perdicula argoondah | |
| Painted Bush-Quail | Perdicula erythrorhyncha | |
| Manipur Bush-Quail | Perdicula manipurensis | |
| Himalayan Quail | Ophrysia superciliosa | exinct |
| Hartlaub’s Spurfowl | Pternistis hartlaubi | |
| Mount Cameroon Spurfowl | Pternistis camerunensis | |
| Handsome Spurfowl | Pternistis nobilis | . |
| Chestnut-naped Spurfowl | Pternistis castaneicollis | |
| Erckel’s Spurfowl | Pternistis erckelii | |
| Djibouti Spurfowl | Pternistis ochropectus | |
| Swierstra’s Spurfowl | Pternistis swierstrai | |
| Ahanta Spurfowl | Pternistis ahantensis | |
| Gray-striped Spurfowl | Pternistis griseostriatus | |
| Jackson’s Spurfowl | Pternistis jacksoni | |
| Red-billed Spurfowl | Pternistis adspersus | |
| Cape Spurfowl | Pternistis capensis | .. |
| Natal Spurfowl | Pternistis natalensis | .. |
| Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl | Pternistis hildebrandti | |
| Double-spurred Spurfowl | Pternistis bicalcaratus | .. |
| Scaly Spurfowl | Pternistis squamatus | . |
| Heuglin’s Spurfowl | Pternistis icterorhynchus | . |
| Clapperton’s Spurfowl | Pternistis clappertoni | |
| Harwood’s Spurfowl | Pternistis harwoodi | |
| Swainson’s Spurfowl | Pternistis swainsonii | .. |
| Yellow-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis leucoscepus | .. |
| Gray-breasted Spurfowl | Pternistis rufopictus | . |
| Red-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis afer | .. |
1 Chukar, Israel; 2 Black Francolin, Israel; 3 Coqui Francolin, Tanzania; 4 Yellow-necked Francolin, Tanzania; 5 Cape Francolin, South Africa; 6 Swainson’s Francolin, South Africa; 7 Natal Francolin, South Africa; 8 Rufous-throated Partridge, Thailand; 9 Double-spurred Francolin, Ghana; 10 Black Grouse, Finland; 11 Madagascan Partridge, Madagascar; 12 Red Junglefowl, Thailand; 13 Crested Francolin , Uganda; 14 Gray Partridge, Poland; 15 Siamese Fireback, Thailand; 16 Brown Quail, New Zealand; 17 Scaly-breasted Partridge, Thailand; 18 Willow Ptarmigan, Norway; 19 Sand Partridge, Israel; 20 Forest Francolin, Ghana; 21 Silver Pheasant, Thailand; 22 Kalij Pheasant, India; 23 Indian Peafowl, India; 24 Rock Ptarmigan, Finland; 25 Wild Turkey, New Zealand; 26 Red-necked Francolin, Uganda; 27 Red-legged Partridge ,Spain; 28 Blyth’s Tragopan, India
29 Bulwer’s Pheasant, Borneo; 30 Bornean Crested Fireback, Borneo; 31 Red-breasted Partridge, Borneo;32 Bornean Peacock-Pheasant, Borneo; 33 Crested Partridge, Borneo; 34 Crimson-headed Partridge, Borneo; 35 Great Argus, Borneo; 36 Stubble Quail, Australia