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Galliformes

24 Bird species

Plain Chachalaca

A relatively large, somewhat chicken-like bird with a long broad tail; U.S. range is limited to extreme Southern Texas. Adult is dusky olive-brown on the smallish head, neck, upper breast, back, wings and tail. Lower breast, belly, and undertail are paler buffy brown. In flight, tail fans into a diam more...

Length: 56 cm Wingspan: 66 cm

Mountain Quail

An elegantly streamlined and colorful quail of western mountains. Adult has bold white vertical bars on flanks, overlaid on deep chestnut belly and sides, orange undertail coverts, brownish-gray upperparts, clean gray head and breast, burgundy-red throat with white outline, short legs and tail, and l more...

Length: 28 cm Wingspan: 41 cm

Scaled Quail

A stocky, intricately-patterned quail of interior Southwest. Adult is gray overall, with fine black "scales" over neck and underparts, white streaks on flanks, clean brownish upperparts, brown face, and pale crest. more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

California Quail

Plump adult stands upright and has stubby wings, relatively short legs and tail, and forward-curling plume on head. Male has blue-gray upperparts and breast, scaly belly, reddish sides streaked with white, scaly nape, black face with white borders, and dark reddish cap. Female lacks black on face and more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Gambel's Quail

A common quail of the southwest. Plump adult stands upright and has stubby wings, relatively short legs and tail, and forward-curling plume on head. Male has blue-gray upperparts and breast, buffy belly with black patch in front of legs, reddish sides streaked with white, black face with white border more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Northern Bobwhite

Plump and quail-like with short legs and tail, stubby wings, and squat structure. Adult male has white throat and long white supercilium; head is otherwise black except rufous-tinged crown. Underparts and back are bright rufous, darker blackish in Florida, with white streaks on flanks and white-spott more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 33 cm

Montezuma Quail

A plump, boldly patterned quail of the Southwest. Adult male has white head with swirling black marks around the eye, rufous crown, black underparts dotted with white, black upperparts with white streaks and fine brown barring, and very short legs and tail. Adult female retains vestige of male's whit more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Chukar

Chicken-like, bulky, with short legs and tail. Adult has thick vertical black bars on flanks, sandy gray back and wings, orange undertail coverts, gray breast, creamy white belly, white throat with thick black border, red orbital ring around black eye, and short red bill. more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 51 cm

Himalayan Snowcock

This Asian species has been established only in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. This large grouse is short-legged and short-tailed and very plump. Plumage is gray-brown overall with rusty streaks on the upperparts. The face and throat are whitish, highlighted by two chestnut stipes that frame the auric more...

Length: 55 cm Wingspan: 86 cm

Gray Partridge

Chicken-like, bulky, with short legs and tail. Adult male has bold vertical rufous bars on flanks, dark patch on belly, grayish back and wings patterned subtly with shades of brown, rufous tail, clean gray neck, stubby gray bill, and orange head with dusky auricular patch and crown. Female lacks dark more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 48 cm

Ring-necked Pheasant

Adult male is nearly unmistakable, with golden-orange plumage, extremely long pointed tail, green head, red facial skin, white neck collar, and fine black spots on underparts. Female is much drabber, buffy-orange and light brown overall, with relatively long pointed tail, fine black barring on wings, more...

Length: 76 cm Wingspan: 79 cm

Ruffed Grouse

A chunky, chicken-like bird of northern forests. Adult is brownish overall with thick black bars on white flanks, brown patterned upperparts, dark band on tip of tail, brown head with pale throat, and an angular spiky crest. Some individuals are gray, some are bright rufous overall. more...

Length: 43 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

Greater Sage-Grouse

A large, chicken-like bird of western sagebrush landscapes. Adult male has blackish head, white breast, black belly, black upperparts marbled with white, short yellow legs, and long, finely barred tail. Female is finely patterned brown, black, and white overall, with solid black belly, large black sp more...

Length: 71 cm Wingspan: 97 cm

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Found only in Colorado and Southeast Utah; closely resembles Greater Sage-Grouse. Adult male has blackish head, white breast, black belly, black upperparts marbled with white, short yellow legs, and long, finely barred tail. Female is finely patterned brown, black, and white overall, with solid black more...

Length: 56 cm Wingspan: 76 cm

Spruce Grouse

This short-tailed grouse of coniferous forests is often quite tame, allowing close approach by observers. Two subspecies groups occur, Taiga Grouse over most of the range, and Franklin's Grouse in the Northern Rockies and Cascades. Male Taiga: Upperparts are slate gray with pale feather edges. The fa more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

Willow Ptarmigan

A mid-sized, chicken-like bird of northern latitudes. Alternate Adult male is rufous-brown above with red comb over eye, short black bill, white underparts with rufous spots on flanks, white wings, and short feathered legs. Alternate Adult female is brown overall, heavily barred with black on underpa more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

4 species

Himalayan Snowcock

Tetraogallus himalayensis

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Willow Ptarmigan

Lagopus lagopus

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

Rock Ptarmigan

Lagopus muta

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Lagopus leucura

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Salt Water

0 species

Human-altered Areas

2 species

California Quail

Callipepla californica

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Fresh Water

2 species

Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands

Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Grassland and Scrubland

20 species

Mountain Quail

Oreortyx pictus

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Scaled Quail

Callipepla squamata

Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

California Quail

Callipepla californica

Gambel's Quail

Callipepla gambelii

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal

Northern Bobwhite

Colinus virginianus

Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Thickets

Montezuma Quail

Cyrtonyx montezumae

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Dry Western Woodlands

Chukar

Alectoris chukar

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes

Himalayan Snowcock

Tetraogallus himalayensis

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Gray Partridge

Perdix perdix

Open Country and Grasslands

Ring-necked Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands

Greater Sage-Grouse

Centrocercus urophasianus

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Centrocercus minimus

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

Willow Ptarmigan

Lagopus lagopus

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

Rock Ptarmigan

Lagopus muta

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Lagopus leucura

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Sooty Grouse

Dendragapus fuliginosus

Clearcuts, Western Confierous Forest

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Tympanuchus phasianellus

Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Greater Prairie-Chicken

Tympanuchus cupido

Open Country and Grasslands

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Forest and Woodlands

13 species