Domestic Chicken

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Bird name: Domestic Chicken
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Other: Rooster, Cockerel (En) • Gallo doméstico, Pollo (Es) • Poule, Coq, Poulet domestique (Fr) • Polllo (It) • Haushuhn (De)
Family: Phasianidae • Pheasants
Range: Thailand or SE Asia originally, but introduced and bred worldwide.

A few photos of chickens from around the world. The chicken was probably domesticated from the Red Junglefowl, a type of pheasant, well over 10,000 years ago in the region of Thailand, and is now bred worldwide. The Red Junglefowl still carries the same species name Gallus gallus.

Lowest a Brahma Cockerel.