Red Junglefowl 🐓

~2022

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What Counts as Wild? On Doves, Junglefowl, and Birding Semantics in the Grenadines

While in Bequia, I saw, heard, and photographed African Collared-Doves. In St. Vincent, I encountered Eurasian Collared-Doves, both vocal and visible. In both cases, Merlin ID instantly recognised them—no disclaimers, no qualifiers. Just birds. Wild ones, apparently. What I didn’t see were Red Junglefowl. But I heard them. Their crowing echoed from hillsides and yards, and Merlin ID confidently returned “Red Junglefowl” as the match—no parenthetical warnings, no footnotes. Just Red […]

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This fabulous Red Junglefowl (among the ancestors of the domestic chicken) lives under a bush between the river and freeway. #naturephotography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birdwatching #naturephotos #LAWildlife #losangeles #GriffithPark #GriffithParkBirds #BirdsOfPixelfed #RedJungleFowl

Really annoyed at myself this morning but don’t want to talk about it, so instead here are some pictures of some #RedJungleFowl chilling near my home.