Gamebird hybrids are the result of crossing species of game birds, including ducks, with each other and with domestic poultry. These hybrid species may sometimes occur naturally in the wild or more commonly through the deliberate or inadvertent intervention of humans.
Charles Darwin described hybrids of game birds and domestic fowl in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication:
Mr. Hewitt, who has had great experience in crossing tame cock-pheasants with fowls belonging to five breeds, gives as the character of all 'extraordinary wildness' (13/42. 'The Poultry Book' by Tegetmeier 1866 pages 165, 167.); but I have myself seen one exception to this rule. Mr. S. J. Salter (13/43. 'Natural History Review' 1863 April page 277.) who raised a large number of hybrids from a bantam-hen by Gallus sonneratii, states that 'all were exceedingly wild.' [...] utterly sterile male hybrids from the pheasant and the fowl act in the same manner, "their delight being to watch when the hens leave their nests, and to take on themselves the office of a sitter." (13/57. 'Cottage Gardener' 1860 page 379.) [...] Mr. Hewitt gives it as a general rule with fowls, that crossing the breed increases their size. He makes this remark after stating that hybrids from the pheasant and fowl are considerably larger than either progenitor: so again, hybrids from the male golden pheasant and female common pheasant "are of far larger size than either parent-bird.' (17/39. Ibid 1866 page 167; and 'Poultry Chronicle' volume 3 1855 page 15.)"
Gamebirdhybrids are the result of crossing species of game birds, including ducks, with each other and with domestic poultry. These hybrid species may...
pool. Hybrids between Greylag goose (Anser anser) and Canada goose (Branta canadensis). Order Galliformes Gamebirdhybrids, hybrids between gamebirds and...
settled down, and mated with American black duck ancestors. See also Gamebirdhybrids. Galloanserae young are remarkably precocious. Anseriform young are...
recorded. Numerous gamebird, domestic fowl and duck hybrids are known. Captive songbird hybrids are sometimes called mules. Numerous hybrid macaws exist in...
derives from "gallus", Latin for "rooster". Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds, or galliforms. Galliforms and waterfowl...
the mallard, starting a slow decline. Gamebirdhybrids are particularly common and many breeders produce hybrids that may be accidentally or intentionally...
Ring-billed Gull in Northern Ireland. Bird hybrid Hybridisation in shorebirds Hybridisation in terns Gamebirdhybrids Steve N. G. Howell, Jon Dunn (2007). A...
pictus), also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae...
subspecies and their intergrades that have white neck rings. It is a well-known gamebird, among those of more than regional importance perhaps the most widespread...
also been introduced in Hawaii and (unsuccessfully) in North America as a gamebird. It inhabits woodlands and forest edges, brush, grassland, and parkland...
The rock partridge or common rock partridge (Alectoris graeca) is a gamebird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae, of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous...
quail hybrids being bred commercially; however, there is a distinct lack of photographic proof to substantiate this. Inter-subspecific hybrids have been...
(cuckoos and relatives) Falconiformes (falcons and relatives) Galliformes (gamebirds) Gaviiformes (loons or divers) Gruiformes (cranes and relatives) Passeriformes...
been recorded preying on capercaillie around the White Sea. A traditional gamebird, the capercaillie has been widely hunted with guns and dogs throughout...
partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies...
feature of the Chinese goose, is present to a varying extent in these hybrids. The hybrids are fertile and have resulted in several of the modern breeds. Despite...
Phylogenetics, biogeography and classification of, and character evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes): Effects of character exclusion, data partitioning...
1(1):9-10. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gallus sonneratii. BirdLife Species Factsheet Gamebirds and waterfowl Grey Junglefowl in poultry practice...
vegetable. The plant can be eaten raw or cooked. Ground-feeding songbirds and gamebirds also eat the seeds. It grows widely throughout Japan and is foraged as...
southern birds arrive. Mixed pairings are also selected against because the hybrid young would migrate in an intermediate direction, which would take them...
no hybrids of snowy owls and other owl species have yet been sighted in the wild. However, a hobby falconer in Kollnburg, Germany, bred hybrids from...
typically feeds on medium-sized birds such as pigeons and doves, waterfowl, gamebirds, songbirds, parrots, seabirds, and waders. Worldwide, it is estimated...
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