Green Junglefowl

The coloration of the Green Junglefowl is sexually dichromatic. The male's plumage is dark and blackish at a distance. A closer view will reveal an iridescent mantle of gleaming scales reminiscent in colour and pattern to those seen in the Ocellated Turkey and Green Peafowl. Each scale is vivid blue at its base and moves through various shades of gold and bronzed green. Specialized plumes framing the throat of the male Green Junglefowl are highly light reflective and appear violet at the proximal and sky blue at the distal edges. The lesser coverts of the wing are a striking burned orange with bronzed black centers. The distal edges of the greater secondary coverts are vivid ocher. Like its distant cousin the Red Junglefowl, the breast and ventral regions are a dense light absorbing black. Like its closer relative the Ceylon Junglefowl, the male Green Junglefowl exhibits vivid 'windows' of bare facial skin that contrasts against the dark scarlet red of the face. The Green Junglefowl exhibits an ice blue cente

The Green Junglefowl is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Green Junglefowl is endemic to Java, Bali, Lombok, Komodo, Flores, Rinca and small islands linking Java with Flores, Indonesia. It has been introduced to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands where there is a small wild population. The coloration of the Green Junglefowl is sexually dichromatic. The male's plumage is dark and blackish at a distance. A closer view will reveal an iridescent mantle of gleaming scales reminiscent in colour and pattern to those seen in the Ocellated Turkey and Green Peafowl. More

Green Junglefowl are one of only a handful of species of gallinaceous birds capable of sustained flight over open water. There are many documented cases of the species flying over the sea between islets. The most extensive flights include movements of an ever fluctuating population of this species that regularly moves between the islands of Komodo, Rinca and Flores. More

Status in Aviculture: The Green Junglefowl is often kept in American aviculture, but not in great numbers. Breeding Season: Mid April to June. Breeding Age: Some are fertile the first year, however, they are not fully mature until the second year. Clutch Size: 5 to 10 eggs. Incubation Period: 21 days. Misc. Aviculture Notes: Green Junglefowl are much more delicate compared to the other Junglefowl species. More

The Green Junglefowl usually lives in groups of two to five in the wild and led by a dominant male, who takes the flock to feed and drink and then back into the cover of the forest. In the night the flock roosts in bamboo stands at 15-20 feet above the forest floor. In the breeding season the dominant males in each flock are challenged by other males without flocks. More

The wild Green Junglefowl is a mangrove forest adapted species. Unlike the Red Junglefowl, the ancestor of most domestic chickens, the Green Junglefowl is specially adapted for life with little fresh water. During the dry season, and also on arid volcanic islands, the Green Junglefowl gets most of its water from dew in the coastal fog on fruits and insects. The Green Junglefowl also thrives on aquatic animals washed up on the shores and littoral pools, which Red Junglefowl are unable to do. More

The Green Junglefowl is being maintained and increasingly bred in captivity as its genetic diversity is disappearing. This is because these birds are bred with domestic chickens by many people, producing a hybrid known as the Bekisar. The Bekisar has become very popular in the East Java province and has become the mascot-bird of the area. Therefore the Green Junglefowl requires more protected conditions than chickens. More

The male Green Junglefowl is instantly recognised by his differently coloured scaled plumage and the multicoloured comb and hackles. Another conspicuous feature is the presence of spurs, found only in the males (above: right leg). Very little is known about its food and feeding habits, although it is known that these birds take insects and weed seeds. Again, its breeding behaviour is generally unknown. Reference: McGowan, P. J. K., 1994. Family Phasianidae (Pheasants and Partridges). More

The Green Junglefowl is the most delicate of the junglefowl and they require some heat in winter. They appear to mix well with other pheasant species. They are found only on Java where the local people greatly prize the "Bekisar," an infertile hybrid between the Green Junglefowl cock and a domestic hen, for "singing" contests. More

Green Junglefowl and their hybrids are very susceptible to common domestic chicken diseases. There are several extremely contagious diseases which though fairly harmless in domestic fowl prove fatal for wild junglefowl. Amongst these include the chicken herpes virus, marble spleen disease, pseudomonas and mycoplasma. For these reasons it is not adviseable to house wild junglefowl with domestic fowl. It is very likely that some of the most ancient breeds like the Japanese Long Crowers (e.g. More

The coloration of the male Green Junglefowl differs from that of the female. The male is mainly green and black feathered. Its head is topped by a light blue comb, which turns purple or red towards the top. Its wattle is also of the same colour but is bordered with blue on the edges and yellow closer to the throat. The female is mostly brown with occasional green feathers and has no comb. More

Results for: green junglefowlTranslations 1 - 30 of 217 English English Finnish Finnish green junglefowl viherviidakkokana, Gallus varius red junglefowl punaviidakkokana, Gallus gallus grey junglefowl harmaaviidakkokana, Gallus sonneratii ceylon junglefowl srilankanviidakkokana, Gallus lafayettii ever-green ikivihreä green for go vihreävalo green ash punasaarni, Fraxinus pennsylvanica More

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* Green Junglefowl (Gallus varius) A bird foraging on the ground. Baluran National Park, East Java Province, Java (Indonesia) (Monotypic species) mehdhalaouate 26 August 2008 13 weeks ago 3 * Male and female on the ground. More

the red and green junglefowl as well as for green peafowl. But more frequently during dawn and near dusk conditions. As its habitat, the green peafowl likes open terrain like the savanna, with scrub, high grass and tall trees for roosting in the vicinity of water. The reason for this habitat-preference is that peafowl need the savanna for foraging (grass and other plant seeds), while at the same time being able to keep an eye out for approaching predators. More

sample of green junglefowl (Gallus varius) was also included in the sequence comparison though we have no reliable information of the leg color of this species. All primers pairs used to generate overlapping PCR amplicons ranging between 700–1000 bps in size are shown in Table S2 and they were designed using the Primer3 software . The same primers were also utilized for sequencing. The sequences were analyzed and edited with Codon Code Aligner (CodonCode, Dedham, MA). More