The Zoochat Photographic Guide to the Galliformes

[TeaLovingDave]

Ophrysia


Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa)

The range of this species is restricted to a tiny region of the Himalayas of northwest India, where it is known only from a handful of specimens collected between 1836 and 1876; likely to be extinct.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Pternistis


Hartlaub's Francolin (Pternistis hartlaubi)

The range of this species extends from southwest Angola in the north to west-central Namibia in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Double-spurred Francolin (Pternistis bicalcaratus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of West Africa, from Senegal and Liberia in the west to northern Cameroon and southwest Chad in the east; a highly-fragmented disjunct population occurs in western Morocco.

Three subspecies are recognised:

P. b. ayesha - photo by @Mehdi

P. b. bicalcaratus - photo by @Tomek

P. b. ogilviegranti


Heuglin's Francolin (Pternistis icterorhynchus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern Central Africa, from
Central African Republic into western South Sudan and adjacent regions of northeast DRC and western Uganda.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Clapperton's Francolin (Pternistis clappertoni)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the Sahel and adjacent regions of Central Africa, from easternmost Mali and Niger in the west to Eritrea and western Ethiopia in the east, and south to northeast Uganda.

Six subspecies are recognised:

P. c. clappertoni
P. c. koenigseggi
P. c. sharpii
P. c. heuglini
P. c. nigrosquamatus
P. c. gedgii

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Harwood's Francolin (Pternistis harwoodi)

The range of this species is restricted to the highlands of central Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Red-billed Francolin (Pternistis adspersus)

The range of this species extends from southwest Angola in the north to west-central Namibia in the south, and east to southern Zambia and central Zimbabwe in the north to extreme north South Africa in the south.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. a. adspersus - photo by @Maguari

P. a. mesicus


Cape Francolin (Pternistis capensis)

The range of this species extends from southernmost Namibia, south throughout western South Africa to the Cape.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Kudu21

Natal Francolin (Pternistis natalensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeastern Africa, from southern and eastern Zambia and northwest Mozambique in the north to eastern South Africa and Swaziland in the south.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. n. neavei
P. n. natalensis - photo by @wstefan

Hildebrandt's Francolin (Pternistis hildebrandti)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout eastern Africa, from western Kenya, northern Tanzania and Rwanda in the north to Malawi, eastern Zambia and northern Mozambique in the south.

Three subspecies are recognised:

P. h. altumi
P. h. hildebrandti - photo by @Hix

P. h. johnstoni


Ahanta Francolin (Pternistis ahantensis)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa, from Senegal in the west to southwest Nigeria in the east.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. a. hopkinsoni
P. a. ahantensis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Scaly Francolin (Pternistis squamatus)

The range of this species extends in a highly-patchy and fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout much of Central Africa, from central Nigeria in the west to south-central Ethiopia in the east, and south to coastal western DRC in the west and southwest Tanzania and northern Malawi in the east.

Six subspecies are recognised:

P. s. squamatus
P. s. schuetti - photo by @lintworm

P. s. maranensis
P. s. usambarae
P. s. uzungwensis
P. s. doni


Grey-striped Francolin (Pternistis griseostriatus)

The range of this species is restricted to a small area of western Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Yellow-necked Francolin (Pternistis leucoscepus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Horn of Africa and adjacent regions of northeast Africa, from Eritrea, Ethiopia and northern Somalia in the north to north-central Tanzania in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @KevinB

Grey-breasted Francolin (Pternistis rufopictus)

The range of this species is restricted to north-central Tanzania.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Hix

Red-necked Francolin (Pternistis afer)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of central and eastern Africa, from central Congo, western DRC and southern Gabon in the west to Uganda, southwest Kenya and southeast Kenya in the east, and south to extreme north-central Namibia in the west and coastal southeast South Africa in the east; largely absent from much of South Africa.

Eight subspecies are recognised:

P. a. cranchii - photo by @Hix

P. a. afer
P. a. harterti
P. a. leucoparaeus - photo by @Hix

P. a. loangwae
P. a. melanogaster - photo by @lintworm

P. a. swynnertoni
P. a. castaneiventer - photo by @GerbenElzinga

Swainson's Francolin (Pternistis swainsonii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central Africa, from eastern Zambia and Malawi in the north to northeast and north-central South Africa in the south, and west into northern Namibia.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. s. lundazi
P. s. swainsonii - photo by @Maguari

Jackson’s Francolin (Pternistis jacksoni)

The range of this species is restricted to a handful of the mountains of west-central Kenya and immediately-adjacent east-central Uganda.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Handsome Francolin (Pternistis nobilis)

The range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution throughout the Albertine Rift of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and northeast DRC.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Mount Cameroon Francolin (Pternistis camerunensis)

Endemic to the slopes of Mount Cameroon in western Cameroon.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Swierstra’s Francolin (Pternistis swierstrai)

The range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution throughout the mountains of western Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Chestnut-naped Francolin (Pternistis castaneicollis)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout western, central and eastern Ethiopia into northwest Somalia.

Three subspecies are recognised:

P. c. castaneicollis
P. c. kaffanus
P. c. ogoensis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Black-fronted Francolin (Pternistis atrifrons)

The range of this species is restricted to south-central Ethiopia and adjacent north-central Kenya.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Erckel’s Francolin (Pternistis erckelii)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northeast Africa from eastern Sudan in the north into the highlands of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ThylacineAlive

Djibouti Francolin (Pternistis ochropectus)

The range of this species is restricted to the mountains of northern Djibouti.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Francolinus


Black Francolin (Francolinus francolinus)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and fragmented distribution throughout much of southern Asia, from southeast Turkey and Cyprus, through the Middle East and Caucasus into the northern Indian Subcontinent and southern slopes of the Himalayas, as far east as northeast India and western Myanmar.

Six subspecies are recognised:

F. f. francolinus
F. f. arabistanicus
F. f. bogdanovi
F. f. henrici
F. f. asiae
F. f. melanonotus

Photo by @devilfish

Painted Francolin (Francolinus pictus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.

Three subspecies are recognised:

F. p. pallidus
F. p. pictus
F. p. watsoni

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Francolin (Francolinus pintadeanus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeast Asia, from northeast India and northern Myanmar in the west to southeastern China in the east, and patchily south throughout much of Indochina and the northern Malay Peninsula.

Two subspecies are recognised:

F. p. phayrei - photo by @Chlidonias

F. p. pintadeanus


Grey Francolin (Francolinus pondicerianus)

The range of this species extends from southern Iran and southwest Pakistan into the Indian Subcontinent and northern Sri Lanka; introduced populations exist throughout many of the islands of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula.

Three subspecies are recognised:

F. p. mecranensis
F. p. interpositus
F. p. pondicerianus

Photo by @ro6ca66

Swamp Francolin (Francolinus gularis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Ganges and Brahmaputra floodplains immediately south of the Himalayas, from north-central India, through Nepal into northeast India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Dendroperdix


Crested Francolin (Dendroperdix sephaena)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout eastern Africa from eastern Ethiopia and Somalia in the north to northeast South Africa and Swaziland in the south, and also west into northern Namibia and southwest Angola.

Five subspecies are recognised:

D. s. spilogaster
D. s. rovuma
D. s. grantii - photo by @Hix

D. s. zambesiae
D. s. sephaena - photo by @Maguari

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Peliperdix


Coqui Francolin (Peliperdix coqui)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of southern and central Africa, from Gabon and Congo in the west to southern Kenya in the east, and south to northeast Namibia in the west and northeast South Africa and Swaziland in the east. Disjunct populations occur in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout the western Sahel; and in southern Ethiopia.

Six subspecies are recognised:

P. c. spinetorum
P. c. maharao - photo by @Hix

P. c. angolensis
P. c. coqui
P. c. vernayi
P. c. hubbardi


White-throated Francolin (Peliperdix albogularis)

The range of this species represents a pair of widely-disjunct populations; throughout coastal West Africa from Senegal to Cameroon; and patchily in southeast DRC, eastern Angola and adjacent northwest Zambia.

Three subspecies are recognised:

P. a. albogularis
P. a. buckleyi
P. a. dewittei

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Schlegel's Francolin (Peliperdix schlegelii)

The range of this species extends throughout northern Central Africa, from west-central Cameroon in the west to western South Sudan in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Forest Francolin (Peliperdix lathami)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Sierra Leone in the west to southern South Sudan and the Albertine Rift in the east, and south to northern Angola.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. l. lathami
P. l. schubotzi

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Scleroptila


Ring-necked Francolin (Scleroptila streptophora)

The range of this species is restricted to a pair of widely disjunct populations; in the Albertine Rift of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and northwest Tanzania; and in the highlands of central Cameroon.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Red-winged Francolin (Scleroptila levaillantii)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout central and southern Africa.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. l. kikuyuensis
S. l. crawshayi
S. l. levaillantii

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Grey-winged Francolin (Scleroptila afra)

The range of this species extends throughout southern and eastern South Africa, and into Lesotho and western Swaziland.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Finsch’s Francolin (Scleroptila finschi)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout southern Gabon and Congo into western DRC and west-central Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Moorland Francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the mountains of central and southern Ethiopia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Elgon Francolin (Scleroptila elgonensis)

The range of this species extends patchily from east-central Uganda into the mountains of central Kenya.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Shelley’s Francolin (Scleroptila shelleyi)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout much of eastern Africa, from southern Kenya, north-central Tanzania and Rwanda in the north to eastern South Africa, Swaziland and southern Mozambique in the south.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. s. uluensis
S. s. macarthuri
S. s. shelleyi

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Whyte’s Francolin (Scleroptila whytei)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of southeast DRC, northern Zambia and northwest Malawi.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Orange River Francolin (Scleroptila gutturalis)

The range of this species represents a pair of highly-disjunct and patchily-distributed populations; from Eritrea, Ethiopia and northern Somalia to northern Uganda; and from southwest Angola and northern Namibia into Botswana and north-central South Africa.

Four subspecies are recognised:

S. g. gutturalis
S. g. lorti
S. g. jugularis
S. g. levalliantoides

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Bambusicola


Mountain Bamboo-partridge (Bambusicola fytchii)

The range of this species extends from northeast India and Bangladesh into south-central China, and south throughout much of northern and western Indochina.

Two subspecies are recognised:

B. f. hopkinsoni
B. f. fytchii

Photo by @Nanook

Chinese Bamboo-partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern and southeast China; an introduced population is present in Japan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura

Taiwan Bamboo-partridge (Bambusicola sonorivox)

Endemic to Taiwan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Gallus


Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern and southeast Asia, from the Himalayan foothills of north-central India, Nepal and Bhutan into eastern and northeast India, southern China and Hainan, and south throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into Sumatra and Java; presumably-introduced populations exist in the Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

Five subspecies recognised:

G. g. murghi - photo by @Chlidonias

G. g. spadiceus - photo by @LaughingDove

G. g. jabouillei - photo by @Maguari

G. g. gallus - photo by @Chlidonias

G. g. bankiva - photo by @Nick@Amsterdam

Grey Junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of central and western Peninsular India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @TeaLovingDave

Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii)

Endemic to Sri Lanka.

Monotypic.

Green Junglefowl (Gallus varius)

The range of this species extends throughout Java and the Lesser Sundas, as far east as Flores, Sumba and Alor.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Najade

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[TeaLovingDave]

Tetraophasis


Chestnut-throated Partridge (Tetraophasis obscurus)

The range of this species is restricted to the mountains of the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions of central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Buff-throated Partridge (Tetraophasis szechenyii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central China and adjacent regions of southeast Tibet and northeast India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Lophophorus


Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Himalayas from northeast Afghanistan and adjacent northern Pakistan in the west, to south-central China, northeast India and northwest Myanmar in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @hmb_zoo

Sclater's Monal (Lophophorus sclateri)

The range of this species extends throughout northeast India into adjacent regions of southeast Tibet, south-central China and northern Myanmar.

Three subspecies are recognised:

L. s. arunachalensis
L. s. sclateri
L. s. orientalis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Monal (Lophophorus lhuysii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Sichuan and adjacent regions of central China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant

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[TeaLovingDave]

Tragopan


Western Tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout the western Himalayas of northern Pakistan and northwest India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @kufri zoo india

Satyr Tragopan (Tragopan satyra)

The range of this species extends throughout the Himalayas from northwest India, throughout Nepal and Bhutan to northeast India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek

Blyth's Tragopan (Tragopan blythii)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout Bhutan, northeast India and adjacent regions of south-central China and western Myanmar.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. b. molesworthi
T. b. blythii

Photo by @Ding Lingwei

Temminck’s Tragopan (Tragopan temminckii)

The range of this species extends from northeast India and adjacent northern Myanmar into northern Indochina and throughout central and south-central China.

Monotypic,

Photo by @ro6ca66

Cabot's Tragopan (Tragopan caboti)

The range of this species extends throughout southeast China.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. c. guangxiensis
T. c. caboti

Photo by @SMR

 

[Hix]

Green Junglefowl (Gallus varius)

The range of this species extends throughout Java and the Lesser Sundas, as far east as Flores, Sumba and Alor.


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And introduced in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. I've got a photo of a female there, if that's of interest.



Hix

 

[birdsandbats]

Black, Gray, and Erkel's Francolins are all introduced to the Hawaiian Islands.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

SDZ's Blyth's Tragopan is listed as nominate, and all of the Mountain Bamboo-Partridges I've seen in the US have been listed as nominate also.

~Thylo

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Ithaginis


Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the central and eastern Himalayas and adjacent regions of the southern Tibetan Plateau, from northwest Nepal in the west to northeast India, northern Myanmar and south-central China in the east, and from here throughout central China.

Fourteen subspecies are currently recognised:

I. c. cruentus
I. c. affinis
I. c. tibetanus
I. c. kuseri
I. c. geoffroyi
I. c. marionae
I. c. rocki
I. c. holoptilus
I. c. clarkei
I. c. michaelis
I. c. beicki
I. c. berezowskii
I. c. annae
I. c. sinensis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Pucrasia


Koklass Pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha)

The range of this species represents several fragmented and widely-disjunct populations; throughout the Himalayas from eastern Afghanistan in the west to central Nepal in the east; throughout south-central and southeast China and immediately-adjacent northern Myanmar; and throughout eastern and northeast China.

Nine subspecies are currently recognised:

P. m. castanea
P. m. biddulphi
P. m. macrolopha
P. m. nipalensis
P. m. meyeri
P. m. ruficollis
P. m. xanthospila
P. m. joretiana
P. m. darwini

Photo by @Malayan Tapir

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[TeaLovingDave]

Syrmaticus


Elliot's Pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of south-east China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Deer Forest2

Mrs Hume’s Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations in southeast Asia; throughout the mountains of northeast India and adjacent northwest Myanmar; and throughout southern China into eastern Myanmar and northwest Thailand.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. h. humiae
S. h. burmanicus

Photo by @Tomek

Mikado Pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado)

Endemic to the mountains of central Taiwan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Copper Pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)

The range of this species extends throughout Japan.

Five subspecies are recognised:

S. s. scintillans - photo by @devilfish

S. s. intermedius
S. s. subrufus - photo by @devilfish

S. s. soemmerringii - photo by @devilfish

S. s. ijimae - photo by @devilfish

Reeves's Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)

The range of this species represents several patchily-distributed disjunct populations in northern and central China; introduced populations occur in Hawaii and several regions of Europe, although with the exception of the Czech Republic population most are unlikely to be self-sustaining.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dormitator

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[TeaLovingDave]

Chrysolophus


Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)

The range of this species extends throughout central and south-central China; a declining introduced population is present in southern Great Britain.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Patrick87

Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)

The range of this species extends throughout south-central China and adjacent southeast Tibet and northeast Myanmar; an introduced population in southern Great Britain is now believed extinct.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Merintia

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[birdsandbats]

Syrmaticus


Elliot's Pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of south-east China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Deer Forest2

Mrs Hume’s Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations in southeast Asia; throughout the mountains of northeast India and adjacent northwest Myanmar; and throughout southern China into eastern Myanmar and northwest Thailand.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. h. humiae
S. h. burmanicus

Photo by @Tomek

Mikado Pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado)

Endemic to the mountains of central Taiwan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Copper Pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii)

The range of this species extends throughout Japan.

Five subspecies are recognised:

S. s. scintillans - photo by @devilfish

S. s. intermedius
S. s. subrufus - photo by @devilfish

S. s. soemmerringii - photo by @devilfish

S. s. ijimae - photo by @devilfish

Reeves's Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)

The range of this species represents several patchily-distributed disjunct populations in northern and central China; introduced populations occur in Hawaii and several regions of Europe, although with the exception of the Czech Republic population most are unlikely to be self-sustaining.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dormitator

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Where are you getting Reeves's Pheasant as introduced in Hawaii? If they were at one time (which I can find no evidence for) they certainly aren't anymore.