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Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) of Singapore
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vertebrates [text \
 index](../vertindex.htm) \| [photo index](../vertfi.htm)Phylum Chordata
 \> Subphylum Vertebrata > Class Aves**Red**
**junglefowl**

**_Gallus gallus_**

**Family Phasianidae** _updated_
_Oct 2016_

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**Where**
**seen?** These wild 'chickens' are commonly encountered on
 Pulau Ubin. They are now also seen in some of our coastal parks such
 as Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and Pasir Ris Park. The
 Red junglefowl is the wild ancestor of domesticated chickens.**Features:** The colourful male (about 80cm) has white ear
 patches and a white puff at the base of his tail. The drab female
 (about 40cm) has dull brown streaky plumage. She also has white ear
 patches and lacks a comb or wattles on her head. Their feet are lead-grey.
 The Red junglefowl cockerel's call sounds just like his domesticated
 cousin but his crowing is said to be more high-pitched and ends more
 abruptly.

 If alarmed, these shy birds can fly quite a distance, for example
 to cross rivers, and quite high, spiralling upwards to the tree tops.
 In fact, they roost in trees. They prefer forest edges, but elsewhere,
 they are found in habitats ranging from mangroves to high mountain
 passes.

**Junglefowl food:** Like their cousins
 the domesticated chickens, Red jungelfowl forage on the ground for
 seeds, fruits and insects. They use their feet to scratch away leaf
 litter and peck at tit bits hidden underneath. To thrive, these birds
 need good ground-level cover to hide and feed in. Some have been observed
 feeding on insects flushed out by the movements of larger animals.
 At Chek
 Jawa, large groups of 20 or more have been seen emerging from the
 coastal forest to forage on the beach with the outgoing tide. However,
 they are extremely shy and will flee into the forest at the slightest
 sign of danger.

**Jungelfowl**
**chicks:** Red junglefowl cockerels are territorial and maintain
 a harem of 3-5 females. Including juveniles, the group can be as many
 as 20. The male performs courtship rituals to attract a female. She
 builds a nest by scraping out a hollow on the ground in a dense thicket
 of vegetation and lays 5-6 beige to pale reddish brown eggs. She incubates
 the eggs alone. These hatch in about three weeks. The downy buff-coloured
 chicks can run around and follow their mother in a few hours. She
 keeps them close to cover until they are well grown. They fledge in
 about 12 days.

_![](gallus/090906prpd0487m6l.jpg)_

_Pasir_
_Ris Park, Sep 09_

_![](gallus/090906prpd0489m3.jpg)_

_Pasir_
_Ris Park, Sep 09_

**Human**
**uses:** Red junglefowl are believed to have been domesticated
 thousands of years ago. It is said that they were first domesticated
 for cockfighting, later for religious ceremonies and only much later
 as food. Some chickens were bred for their feathers, which were used
 in ceremonial costumes. Like other domesticated animals, there are
 now many different breeds of chickens for various purposes from laying
 eggs, providing meat or just for their sheer beauty.

**Status and threats:** The Red junglefowl
 is listed as 'Endangered' in the Red List of threatened animals of
 Singapore. They are not only affected by habitat loss but also by
 poaching and interbreeding with domesticated chickens. They are found
 from India to Southern China, throughout Southeast Asia to the Philippines
 and Bali.

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**Red junglefowl on Singapore shores**

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Photos of [Red junglefowl](https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Gallus+gallus&w=54527470%40N00&s=rec) or free
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 flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/)

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Distribution in Singapore on [this wildsingapore flickr map](https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/tags/Gallus%2520gallus/map?&fLat=1.2626&fLon=103.8661&zl=11&order_by=recent)

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**Links**

- [_Gallus_\
  _gallus_](https://singapore.biodiversity.online/taxo4254/mainSpace/Gallusgallus.html) (Galliformes: Phasianidae) Red Jungle Fowl by Tan Hui-Ning Amanda,
   2011 on taxo4254.

**References**

- Davison,
   G.W. H. and P. K. L. Ng and Ho Hua Chew, 2008. _The Singapore_
  _Red Data Book: Threatened plants and animals of Singapore_.
   Nature Society (Singapore). 285 pp.
- Strange,
   Morten & Allan Jeyarajasingam, 1999. _Birds_
  _: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and_
  _Singapore_.
   Sun Tree Publishing Limited, Singapore. 258 pp.
- Strange,
   Morten, 1998. _Birds_
  _of South-East Asia: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand,_
  _Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia._
   New Holland Publishers. 112 pp.
- Strange,
   Morten, 2000. _Tropical_
  _Birds of Malaysia and Singapore_.
   Periplus Editions, Hong Kong. 64 pp.
- Lim, Kim
   Seng and Dana Gardner, 1997. _An_
  _Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds of Singapore_.
   Sun Tree Publishing Limited, Singapore. 226 pp.

- Davidson,
   G. W. H. & Chew Yen Fook, 1995. _A_
  _Photographic Guide to Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore_
   New Holland Publishers, UK. 144 pp.
- Madoc, G.
   C., 1947 (1992 4th ed). _An_
  _Introduction to Malayan Birds_.
   The Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 227 pp.
- Bucknill,
   John A. S. & Chasen, F. N., 1927 (1990 ed.). _Birds_
  _of Singapore and South-east Asia_.
   Tynron Press, Scotland. 247 pp.

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