Birds

🐓Fowl (Galloanserae)

Fowl

~590 species

The clade uniting landfowl (chickens, turkeys, pheasants) and waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans). Among the earliest-diverging groups of modern birds.

Source: Wikipedia

💡Fowl includes the most commonly domesticated birds — chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys — making them arguably the most economically important bird group.

13 birds

🐓 chicken 🦃 turkey 🦚 peacock 🐦 pheasant 🐦 quail 🐦 partridge 🐦 grouse 🐦 guinea fowl 🦢 swan 🪿 goose 🦆 mallard 🦆 teal 🦆 mandarin duck

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