Red Junglefowl

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male often has long golden hackle feathers on the neck and back
2. Male has 14 tail feathers, gleaming blue, purple and green in the light
3. Male has much larger comb and wattles than the female
4. Male has sharp spurs on the backs of the legs

Male, female and young

The male is brightly colored, with a large comb and wattles and long ornamental feathers, and weighs about 1.5 kg; the female is duller and weighs about 1 kg.

Voice

A call in a four-syllable phrase; the male's crow is shorter than that of the domestic chicken and ends abruptly.

Where and when it's recorded

Red Junglefowl has been recorded at 1,083 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 83 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Kanha NP – Mukki ZoneIndia5,348 records
2. Singapore Botanic GardensSingapore3,913 records
3. Pasir Ris ParkSingapore1,682 records

Countries and regions with the most records

SingaporeIndiaThailandMalaysiaVietnamPhilippinesPuerto RicoNepal

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia.

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