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California laws relating to fully protected species were among the first attempts in the nation to give protection to wildlife in risk of extinction, predating even the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). In the decades that followed, new laws were enacted that were more flexible to the needs of growing communities and the modern world.
Afropavo Chapin, 1936 (African peafowl) Pavo Linnaeus, 1758 (Asiatic peafowl) Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851; Crossoptilon Hodgson, 1838 (eared pheasants)
Peafowl are omnivores and mostly eat plants, flower petals, seed heads, insects and other arthropods, reptiles, and amphibians. Wild peafowl look for their food scratching around in leaf litter either early in the morning or at dusk. They retreat to the shade and security of the woods for the hottest portion of the day.
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
Afropavo (African peafowl) Pavo (Asiatic peafowl) incertae sedis: Polyplectron (peacock-pheasants) incertae sedis: Haematortyx (crimson-headed partridge) incertae sedis: Tropicoperdix; incertae sedis: Galloperdix (Asian spurfowl) Gallini: Bambusicola (bamboo partridges) Gallus (junglefowl, including the domestic chicken) Peliperdix (Latham's ...
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Gallus aesculapii, a Late Miocene – Early Pliocene "junglefowl" of Greece, may also have been a peafowl [5] In the Pliocene on the Balkan Peninsula, Bravard's peafowl coexisted with ptarmigans (Lagopus sp.) [6] Peafowl were widespread on the Balkan Peninsula and in Southeastern Europe until the end of the Pliocene. [7]