What Galliformes (Grouse, quail, and allies) have you seen? (1 Viewer)

Yes...another of THOSE THREADS

But we currently have thread for all the other widespread difficult groups, such as owls, rails, and nightbirds, so might as well throw this out there. I think many people would consider the various grouse and quail to be on par with these in difficulty to view, and many species are not only reclusive, but have limited ranges and are non-migratory, meaning a lot of travel is needed.

Here is my list, 13 ABA (with 10 to go!) and 21 total. Have at least one member of each family except for the megapodes.

CRACIDAE
Plain Chachalaca - Texas

NUMIDIDAE
Helmeted Guineafowl - South Africa

ODONTOPHORIDAE
California Quail - California
Gambel's Quail - California, Arizona, New Mexico
Scaled Quail - Arizona
Northern Bobwhite - Texas, North Carolina
Mountain Quail - California

PHASIANIDAE
Red-legged Partridge - England
Common Quail - Kenya (pre-birding)
Ruffed Grouse - Michigan
Greater Sage Grouse - Wyoming
Sooty Grouse - California
Willow Ptarmigan - Alaska
Rock Ptarmigan - Alaska
Wild Turkey - Michigan, California, Texas, Arizona, probably elsewhere
Ring-necked Pheasant - Michigan, Ohio
Green Pheasant - Japan
Cape Spurfowl - South Africa
Yellow-necked Spurfowl - Kenya (pre-birding)
Gray-winged Francolin - South Africa
Sharp-tailed Grouse - Michigan

I have 24 species, mostly New World Quails and Cracids.

Megapodiidae (2):

Australian Brush-Turkey
Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Cracidae (12):

Plain Chachalaca
Grey-headed Chachalaca
Rufous-headed Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Andean Guan
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
Wattled Guan
Black Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Great Curassow

Odontophoridae (8):

Mountain Quail
Scaled Quail
California Quail
Gambel's Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Marbled Wood-Quail
Dark-backed Wood-Quail
Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail

Phasianidae (2):

Brown Quail
Wild Turkey

All seen (I could add a few Wood-Quails and another Curassow as heard-only).

Carlos

Yea! Another one of THOSE THREADS. They all give me such a great excuse to procrastinate and go back through my list! Looks like I still need quite a few ABA species but I'm at 77 total.

Megapodiidae (2)
Australian Brush-Turkey
Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Cracidae (11)
Plain Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Andean Guan
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
Wattled Guan
Black Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Razor-billed Curassow
Great Curassow

Numididae (4)
Black Guineafowl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Crested Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl

Odontophoridae (6)
Gambel's Quail
Marbled Wood-Quail
Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail
Dark-backed Wood-Quail
Black-breasted Wood-Quail
Spotted Wood-Quail

Phasianidae (54)
Chukar
Gray Francolin
Coqui Francolin
White-throated Francolin
Crested Francolin
Red-winged Francolin
Gray-winged Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Scaly Francolin
Hartlaub's Francolin
Black Francolin
Clapperton's Francolin
Red-billed Francolin
Cape Francolin
Natal Francolin
Hildebrandt's Francolin
Yellow-necked Francolin
Red-necked Francolin
Swainson's Francolin
Jackson's Francolin
Gray Partridge
Common Quail
Harlequin Quail
Brown Quail
Blue-breasted Quail
Jungle Bush-Quail
Rufous-throated Partridge
Bar-backed Partridge
Chestnut-headed Partridge
Scaly-breasted Partridge
Crested Partridge
Stone Partridge
Mountain Bamboo-Partridge
Koklass Pheasant
Himalayan Monal
Red Junglefowl
Gray Junglefowl
Green Junglefowl
Kalij Pheasant
Silver Pheasant
Crested Fireback
Bulwer's Pheasant
Cheer Pheasant
Hume's Pheasant
Ring-necked Pheasant
Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
Malayan Peacock-Pheasant
Great Argus
Indian Peafowl
Green Peafowl
Ruffed Grouse
Dusky Grouse
Wild Turkey
Ocellated Turkey

I'm at 34

Megapodiidae: 2
Australian Brush Turkey
Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Cracidae: 1
Plain Chachalaca

Numididae: 1
Helmeted Guineafowl

Odontophoridae: 2
California Quail
Gambel's Quail

Phasianidae: 28
Wild Turkey
Spruce Grouse
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Red-legged Partridge
Chinese Fancolin
Grey Francolin
Crested Francolin
Natal Francolin
Swainson's Francolin
Japanese Quail
Rain Quail
Stubble Quail
Brown Quail
King Quail
Rufous-throated Partridge
Malaysian Partridge
Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
Crimson-headed Partridge
Crested Partridge
Mountain Bamboo Partridge
Red Junglefowl
Silver Pheasant
Crestless Fireback
Common Pheasant
Green Pheasant
Great Argus
Indian Peafowl
Green Peafowl

MEGAPODIDAE (1)
Tabon Scrubfowl

CRACIDAE (15)
Plain Chachalaca
Grey-headed Chachalaca
Chaco Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Andean Guan
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Dusky-legged Guan
Chestnut-bellied Guan
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
Red-throated Piping-Guan
Black Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Great Curassow
Bare-faced Curassow

NUMIDIDAE (3)
Helmeted Guineafowl
Crested Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl

ODONTOPHORIDAE (6)
Mountain Quail
Scaled Quail
California Quail
Gambel's Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Montezuma Quail

PHASIANIDAE (34)
Chukar
Grey Francolin
Coqui Francolin
Crested Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Red-billed Francolin
Hildebrandt's Francolin
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
Jackson's Francolin
Grey Partridge
Common Quail
Rufous-throated Partridge
Red Junglefowl
Kalij Pheasant
Crested Fireback
Common (ringnecked) Pheasant
Indian Peafowl
Western Capercaillie
Black Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Greater Sage-Grouse
Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Willow Ptarmigan
Rock Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Dusky Grouse
Sooty Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-chicken
Lesser Prairie-chicken
Wild Turkey
Ocellated Turkey

Total: 59

Our native grouse can drive me nuts... until very recently I had only seen Ruffed Grouse (and that just barely!), it took many tries before I got Spruce and still don't have either Sooty or Dusky. Later this week I'm going to a festival in Oklahoma to see Lesser Prairie Chicken.

I've generally had good luck with western quails though, and cracids.

Cracidae (16):
Plain Chachalaca
Gray-headed Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Chaco Chachalaca
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Bearded Guan
Chestnut-bellied Guan
Andean Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Black Guan
Wattled Guan
Common Piping-Guan
Salvin's Curassow
Bare-faced Curassow
Great Curassow

Phasianidae (7):
Wild Turkey
Ring-necked Pheasant
Gray Partridge
Ruffed Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken

Odontophoridae (6):
Marbled Wood-Quail
Black-breasted Wood-Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Gambel's Quail
California Quail
Mountain Quail

1. Plain Chachalaca, Texas
2. Gray-headed Chachalaca, Costa Rica
3. Rufous-headed Chachalaca, Ecuador
4. Speckled Chachalaca, Ecuador
5. Blue-throated Piping-Guan, Ecuador
6. Black Guan, Costa Rica
7. Sickle-winged Guan, Ecuador
8. Helmeted Guineafowl, Kenya
9. Chukar, Washington
10. Coqui Francolin, Kenya
11. Crested Francolin, Kenya
12. Scaly Francolin, Kenya
13. Red-necked Spurfowl, Kenya
14. Common Quail, Kenya
15. Ring-necked (Common) Pheasant, Missouri
16. Ruffed Grouse, Missouri
17. Sharp-tailed Grouse, Minnesota
18. Greater Prairie-Chicken, Missouri
19. Wild Turkey, Missouri
20. Mountain Quail, California
21. Scaled Quail, Oklahoma
22. California Quail, Washington
23. Gambel's Quail, New Mexico
24. Northern Bobwhite, Missouri
25. Montezuma Quail, Arizona

Always a good trip when you get a new one of these

1) Plain Chacalaca Texas
2) Scaled Quail Texas
3) Mountain Quail California
4) California Quail California
5) Gambels Quail California
6) Chukar Turkey
7) Barbary Partridge Morrocco
8) Red-legged Partridge England
9) Black Francolin Turkey
10) See-See Partridge Turkey
11) Sand Patridge Israel
12) Grey Partridge England
13) Common Quail England
14) Caspian Snowcock Turkey
15) Ring-necked Pheasant England
16) Golden Pheasant England
17) Red Grouse UK
18) Black Grouse UK
19) Ptamigan Scotland, Switzerland
20) Capercaillie Scotland
21) Sage Grouse California
22) Ruffed Grouse Ontario, Nova Scotia
23) Sharp-tailed Grouse Michigan
24) Sooty Grouse California
25) Wild Turkey USA

Larry Lade said:

21. Scaled Quail, Oklahoma

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Black Mesa? I've dipped on those darn quail both times I've been. Definitely some good birding though.

Ovenbird43,

My first ever sighting of Scaled Quail was on May, 21, 1995 near Optima, Oklahoma. A few days later I saw them again in the Willcox Ponds area, Willcox, Arizona.

On a second 10-day birding trip to Arizona I again was able to see the quail around Elfrida, Arizona (on August 10, 2006).

Neat bird!

ovenbird43 said:

Black Mesa? I've dipped on those darn quail both times I've been. Definitely some good birding though.

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Try Desert Hawk Golf Course, off McCulloch Blvd, Pueblo West, CO - the rough areas on the edge of the golf course or the surrounding gardens at dusk where they presumably roost. Very easy but as everywhere rampant development is destroying their habitat. Also Curve-billed Thrasher here, singing from the few remaining cholla cacti. A sad sight but very easy.

Br, Mike

1. Black Grouse (UK)
2. Red Grouse (UK)
3. Red-legged Partridge (UK)
4. Grey Partridge (UK)
5. Chukar Partridge (Cyprus)
6. Black Francolin (Cyprus)
7. Silver Pheasant (Thailand)
8. Golden Pheasant (UK)
9. Common Pheasant (UK)
10. Common Quail (UK)

As a rule I do very poorly with these guys...

Galliformes - stunning birds ( unless you know the bu**ers around - but there's no way you're able to pick them up.)

Tabon Scrubfowl
Forsten's Scrubfowl
Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Dusky Scrubfowl
Polynesian Scrubfowl
Mallee-fowl
Australian Bush Turkey
Maleo-fowl
Grey-headed Chachalaca ( that's a cracking word to input )
Rufous-vented Chachalaca
Band-tailed Guan
Crested Guan
Trinidad Piping Guan
Black ( Piping ) Guan
Helmeted Curassow
Great Curassow
Buffy-crowned Tree Quail
Mountain Quail
California Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Crested Bobwhite
Marbled Wood Quail
Venezuelan Wood Quail
White-throated Wood Quail
Montezuma's Quail
Tawny-faced Quail
Common Turkey
Sickle-winged Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Blue Grouse
Willow Grouse ( Ptarmigan )
Red Grouse
Rock Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Caucasian Grouse
Black Grouse
Black-billed Capercaille
Western Capercaille
Hazel Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Sage Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Snow Partridge
See-see Partridge
Sand Partridge
Caucasian Snowcock
Tibetan Snowcock
Altai Snowcock
Himalayan Snowcock
Szechenyi's Monal
Common Rock Partridge
Chukar Partridge
Red-legged Partridge
Barbary Partridge
Arabian Partridge
Black Francolin
painted Francolin
Chinese Francolin
Red-necked Spurfowl
Grey-breasted Spurfowl
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Erckel's Francolin
Chestnut -naped Francolin
Jackson's Francolin
Ahanta Francolin
Scaly Francolin
Double-spurred Francolin
heuglin's Francolin
Clapperton's Francolin
Hildebrandt's Francolin
Harwood's Francolin
Crested Francolin
Ring-necked Francolin
Moorland Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Red-winged Francolin
Coqui Francolin
White-throated Francolin
Latham's Francolin
grey francolin
Grey Partridge
Daurian Partridge
Tibetan Partridge
Long-billed Wood Partridge
Black Wood Partridge
Common Quail
Japanese Quail
Haelequin Quail
Stubble Quail
Brown Quail
Blue-breasted Quail
African Blue Quail
Common Hill Partridge
Rufous-throated Hill Partridge
Taiwan Hill Partridge
Barred Hill Partridge
Orange-necked Hill Partridge
Chestnut-headed Hill Partridge
Grey-breasted Hill Partridge
Chestnut-bellied Tree Partridge
Scaly-breasted Partridge
Annam Hill Partridge
Ferruginous Partridge
Crimson-headed Partridge
Crested Partridge
Stone Partridge
Mountain Bamboo Partridge
Chinese Bamboo Partridge
Red Spurfolw
Painted Spurfowl
( Now we're getting to the really spectacular stuff :t: )
Blood Pheasant
Satyr Tragopan
Blyth's Tragopan
Temminck's Tragopan
Koklass Pheasant
Himalayan Monal
Red Junglefowl ( real ones, not just chickens )
Green Junglefowl
Kalij Pheasant
Silver Pheasant
Edward's Pheasant
Swinhoe's Pheasant
Crestless Fireback
Crested Fireback
Bulwer's Pheasant
Tibetan Eared Pheasant
Cheer Pheasant
Mikado Pheasant
Copper Pheasant
Reeves' Pheasant
Common Pheasant
Green Pheasant
Golden Pheasant
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
Mountain Peacock Pheasant
Germain's Peacock Pheasant
Grey Peacock Pheasant
Malay Peacock Pheasant
Crested Argus
Great Argus
Common Peafowl
Green Peafowl
Black Guineafowl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Plumed Guineafowl
Crested Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl.

Chris

Bowland Birders said:

Try Desert Hawk Golf Course, off McCulloch Blvd, Pueblo West, CO - the rough areas on the edge of the golf course or the surrounding gardens at dusk where they presumably roost. Very easy but as everywhere rampant development is destroying their habitat. Also Curve-billed Thrasher here, singing from the few remaining cholla cacti. A sad sight but very easy.

Br, Mike

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Thanks, I might try that- I'll be visiting Colorado next month.

I can now add my 8th species in Phasianidae: Lesser Prairie-Chicken!

1. Helmeted Guineafowl - South Africa
2. Crested Guineafowl - South Africa
3. Red-winged Francolin - South Africa
4. Orange River Francolin - South Africa
5. Crested Francolin - South Africa
6. Red-billed Spurfowl - South Africa
7. Cape Spurfowl - South Africa
8. Natal Spurfowl - South Africa
9. Swainson's Spurfowl - South Africa
10. King Quail - Philippines
11. Taiwan Partridge - Taiwan
12. Ferruginous Partridge - Malaysia
13. Bamboo Partridge - Taiwan
14. Red Junglefowl - Malaysia
15. Swinhoe's Pheasant - Taiwan
16. Mikado Pheasant - Taiwan
17. Common Pheasant - South Korea

........ and

Micronesian Scrubfowl / Megapode - Ngerukthapel, Palau

Chris

Jeff hopkins said:

MEGAPODIDAE (1)
Tabon Scrubfowl

CRACIDAE (15)
Plain Chachalaca
Grey-headed Chachalaca
Chaco Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Andean Guan
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Dusky-legged Guan
Chestnut-bellied Guan
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
Red-throated Piping-Guan
Black Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Great Curassow
Bare-faced Curassow

NUMIDIDAE (3)
Helmeted Guineafowl
Crested Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl

ODONTOPHORIDAE (6)
Mountain Quail
Scaled Quail
California Quail
Gambel's Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Montezuma Quail

PHASIANIDAE (34)
Chukar
Grey Francolin
Coqui Francolin
Crested Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Red-billed Francolin
Hildebrandt's Francolin
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
Jackson's Francolin
Himalayan Snowcock
Grey Partridge
Common Quail
Rufous-throated Partridge
Red Junglefowl
Kalij Pheasant
Crested Fireback
Common (ringnecked) Pheasant
Indian Peafowl
Western Capercaillie
Black Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Greater Sage-Grouse
Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Willow Ptarmigan
Rock Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Dusky Grouse
Sooty Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-chicken
Lesser Prairie-chicken
Wild Turkey
Ocellated Turkey

Total: 60

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Edited May '11

2 more recently in Vietnam to move to 36

Germain's Peacock-Pheasant
Green-legged Partridge

I need too many of these- especially the Phasianidae!

Megapodiidae- a big fat 0

Cracidae
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera
Rufous-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis wagleri
West Mexican Chachalaca Ortalis poliocephala
Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata
Bearded Guan Penelope barbata
Andean Guan Penelope montagnii
Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu
Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis PL (10)
Wattled Guan Aburria aburri
Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor
Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii
Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum
Great Curassow Crax rubra

Numidiidae- none of those

Odontorophidae
Long-tailed Wood Partridge Dendrortyx macroura
Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys
Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata
Elegant Quail Callipepla douglasii
California Quail Callipepla californica
Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
Spot-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon
Marbled Wood Quail Odontophorus gujanensis
Black-eared Wood Quail Odontophorus melanotis
Rufous-fronted Wood Quail Odontophorus erythrops
Dark-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus speciosus
Black-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus leucolaemus
Starred Wood Quail Odontophorus stellatus
Spotted Wood Quail Odontophorus guttatus
Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus

Phasianidae
Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis
Gunnison Grouse Centrocercus minimus
Dusky Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus
Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
Greater Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura
Grey Partridge Perdix perdix
Rufous-throated Partridge Arborophila rufogularis
Bar-backed Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus
Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
Green Peafowl Pavo muticus

48 species total

Up to 15 now, with Dusky and Gunnison Sage Grouse this weekend