gallinacean
gallinaceous

Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs?

He wrote that it may have been a grouse or gallinaceous bird.

Gallinaceous birds are well adapted to regions with cold winters.

"Me name is unknown to you yet, gallinaceous repugnant orangutang," he muttered in his sleep.

Members are essentially intestinal parasites of gallinaceous birds, including domestic fowl.

Many gallinaceous species are skilled runners and prefer to escape predators by running rather than flying.

Like most gallinaceous birds, they have a short-lived explosive flight and rely on gliding to cover extended distances.

Gallinaceous birds are arboreal or terrestrial animals; many prefer not to fly, but instead walk and run for locomotion.

Some of these, like the plumage of gallinaceous birds, could change during an individual's lifetime but these differences were not evident at birth.

The Center grew to have a population of 44 gibbons (and also formerly had more than 100 gallinaceous birds), supported by donations and volunteer labor.

Gallinaceous birds roost beneath snow and create a thermal microclimate that conserves heat.

Heath hens were extremely common in their habitat during Colonial times, but being a gallinaceous bird, they were hunted by settlers extensively for food.

H. meleagridis is the causal organism of histomoniasis of gallinaceous birds.

A comb is a fleshy growth or crest on the top of the head of gallinaceous birds, most notably turkeys, pheasants, and domestic chickens.

Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds or galliforms.

Partridge was named after the partridge, any of various gallinaceous birds, such as the ruffed grouse or bob-white quail, found in North America.

Initially it bred parrots only; but the production line today includes other birds such as Asian doves, hornbills, gallinaceous birds, cranes, and flamingos.

Gallus bankiva (illustration) in Sir William Jardine, The natural history of gallinaceous birds: Vol.

Because broiler chickens are the same species as egg laying hens, their behavioural repertoires are initially similar, and also similar to those of other gallinaceous birds.

In this respect, and in the broader feathers of the wing, this bird perhaps shows more affinity to the gallinaceous family than any other of the Struthionidae.'

Fipronil is highly toxic for crustaceans, insects and zooplankton, as well as bees, termites, rabbits, the fringe-toed lizard and certain groups of gallinaceous birds.

So extraordinary was this bird and so little was known about it, that previously naturalists had been divided as to whether it belonged to the vulture or the gallinaceous race.

A protozoan H. meleagridis is responsible for histomoniasis of gallinaceous birds ranging from chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, grouse, guineafowl, partridges, pheasants, and quails.