Chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Phasianidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Towns and farms
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- A hen clucks to her eggs before they hatch, and the chicks can peep back from inside the shell.
- Chickens are probably the most numerous bird on Earth, with well over 20 billion alive at any time.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q780 · All animals · All entries