The Landfowl Lovers Club! 🦚🐓🦃

Fallax

Fallax
After some talk in the speculation thread and inspired by @RightWhale 's thread for Waterfowl... I think it is time the landfowl get love too!

Currently we have the Indian Peafowl and Sussex Chicken and that is all! One wild and one domestic species. Considering the variety and how common landfowl are in zoos I think we should definitely have more.

I'll start this thread with a simple question, which would you like to see most? Pheasants, guineafowl, turkeys, grouse, partridges, curassows, quails? Or maybe something else.

1743174760025.jpeg
 

Birb（｡･ө･｡）

Birb（｡･ө･｡）
Oh my god I was just thinking we needed a sister thread to the Waterfowl Winners and BOOM here it is! Thanks Fallax :>

IMO every continent should have at least one landfowl species; they're ridiculously common zoo animals and it's insane that we're so many years in without a second wild one (seriously how do we not have a pheasant yet lol). Personally, the helmeted guineafowl is my most wanted (and, frankly one of my most wanted animals overall). I'm desperate to have a small filler mixed savanna critter that isn't another ungulate - and it doubles as a domestic animal. It and the grey crowned crane would be the perfect African savanna duo in my eyes.

All I want is for these delightful little orb creatures to roam my elephant habitats someday 😔

1743176832936.png
 
Last edited:

Markiz

Markiz
I candidate Capercaillie (or a Woodgrouse). It's quite large, looks pretty cool and would fit right in with other Boreal European animals. I know people aren't too hot on European fauna anymore, but I believe this one stands out a bit
1000025493.jpg
 
Last edited:

RightWhale

RightWhale
Birb（｡･ө･｡） said:
Oh my god I was just thinking we needed a sister thread to the Waterfowl Winners and BOOM here it is! Thanks Fallax :>

IMO every continent should have at least one landfowl species; they're ridiculously common zoo animals and it's insane that we're so many years in without a second wild one (seriously how do we not have a pheasant yet lol). Personally, the helmeted guineafowl is my most wanted (and, frankly one of my most wanted animals overall). I'm desperate to have a small filler mixed savanna critter that isn't another ungulate - and it doubles as a domestic animal. It and the grey crowned crane would be the perfect African savanna duo in my eyes.

All I want is for these delightful little orb creatures to roam my elephant habitats someday 😔

View attachment 423509
Click to expand...
The fact they can even live in snow genuinely helps them be a great choice. Helmeted guineafowl and Muscovy ducks also work as both domestic and wild animals so they both fill great slots.
 

SuzieSky

SuzieSky
Fallax said:
I'll start this thread with a simple question, which would you like to see most? Pheasants, guineafowl, turkeys, grouse, partridges, curassows, quails? Or maybe something else.
Click to expand...
I want to see a basic wild turkey the most. If it has appropriate interspecies enrichment with both domestic and wild animals, it can stand in for its domestic counterpart and add an iconic bird for North America. To me, it is one of the most useful birds they could add. On the large, domestic-ish fowl front, a helmeted guineafowl would also be nice to finish off that niche.

For the many wild Asian pheasants, I want to see the golden pheasant the most. It is very beautiful and common in zoos. One that shares a range with it and has contrasting colors would be nice for mixed exhibits. I like the idea of a silver pheasant to go with the golden one, but the morphologically similar Lady Amherst's pheasant would also do brilliantly. I could almost picture Frontier pulling a Grasslands and giving us the golden and LA pheasant as a two for one. After that, I'd be pretty happy with the vanilla roster's pheasant lineup. There are other options like the Argus, Reeves's, Common pheasant, and Himalayan monal that would be nice for mods, but I think 2 East Asian pheasants would be enough for me and most people who don't use mods. Getting the domestic chicken has nullified my interest in the red junglefowl, as much as I like its classic chicken colors.

For other species, I don't think anything is necessary. A currasow would be super cool for tropical houses, but it seems like such an oddball that I don't expect it. I think prairie chickens are really cool, and North American grouse species are ok. Neither strikes me as an exceptional, likely pick for PZ, though. I think the capercaillie could be ok, but the mallard and pelican are much more useful and more popular among European birds. Assuming we get both, Europe would have 4-5 birds, depending on whether you count the chicken. I would like to see other regions get a few more before I'd get remotely excited about the white stork and capercaillie, too.

To summarize, I really want the turkey, ~2 pheasants for East Asia, maybe a guineafowl, and am hopeful for but not expecting a currasow. Everything else, assuming a balanced roster, would be a bonus. Pheasants are cool.
 

Fallax

Fallax
Safari Pack is being speculated right now so the question is obviously will we get a landfowl after the pheasants just missed their chance? I really want a guineafowl! I think it might be top of my landfowl wishlist right now.

They are really cute and very versatile! You could use them in mixed savannas, small aviaries, indoor houses and farmyard areas!

1750618693848.jpeg
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
Fallax said:
Safari Pack is being speculated right now so the question is obviously will we get a landfowl after the pheasants just missed their chance? I really want a guineafowl! I think it might be top of my landfowl wishlist right now.

They are really cute and very versatile! You could use them in mixed savannas, small aviaries, indoor houses and farmyard areas!

View attachment 432966
Click to expand...
I would absolutely love to get Guineafowl in game. One of my fav enclosures of them was in Zoo Brno, where they had a themed African Village with African Pygmy Goats and Helmeted Guineafowl among other things and I wanted to recreate that ever since. Their shelter was themed to be a small African mudhut and it was really cute and funny idea.
 

Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
The ocellated turkey is definitely my most-wanted landfowl species.

I know their chance has probably passed us by now, and their relatively small size might make their inclusion difficult, but one of my favourite landfowl is the crested wood partridge. Pretty high on my list of most-wanted bird species, with its ability to be kept in sometimes huge groups, its versatility in how it can be kept and the fact that both the males and females are stunningly beautiful in their own ways. From what I can gather, they are extremely common in captivity.

1750771292133.png
 

Chuditch

Chuditch
Malleefowl ❤️ no votes on the metawishlist and not kept in zoos outside of Australia, but they're my favourite landfowl and a prominent species in local conservation programs

6084460_1_orig.jpg


Given they're megapodes they also build ginormous nests, huge mounds of dirt and rotting vegetation that act as incubators for their buried eggs. Once the chicks emerge, they're fully independent of their parents and can even fly only hours after hatching. Such cool birds!

2289439.jpg
502200129_E_cnt_2_xl.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom