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Asian Spurfowl
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Asian Spurfowl

Galloperdix

Galloperdix is a genus of three species of birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. These terrestrial birds are restricted to the Indian Subcontinent, with the red spurfowl and painted spurfowl in forest and scrub in India, and the Sri Lanka spurfowl in forests of Sri Lanka. They share the common name "spurfowl" with the African members of the genus Pternistis.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Red Spurfowl

speciesGalloperdix spadicea

Painted Spurfowl

speciesGalloperdix lunulata

Sri Lanka Spurfowl

speciesGalloperdix bicalcarata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1132.