Is there yet a definite answer to whether a bird is a red junglefowl or a domestic chicken? I found these two older threads– https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-domestic-animals-with-their-non-domestic-counterparts/30099 (2022) and https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/gallus-gallus-outside-its-nativ…

[image] murl10: domestic mallard I think wild type mallards exist, since aren’t domestic ones usually not green-headed brown ones? [image] murl10: feral pigeon And aren’t all or most feral pigeons IDed that way?

[image] murl10: So, does it make sense in the USA, to change any observations of red junglefowl to domestic chicken? Please do, unless they are, for instance, zoo collections of the wild-type. I think this may recently have changed, but for a long time, entering a subspecies ID would only ta…

Wild Muscovy Ducks are widespread in Latin America (not just South America) and can occur all the way up to the US-Mexico border in southern Texas. Truly wild Muscovies are very rare and localized on the US side of the border, though they have been documented. Any Muscovy Duck away from this region …

[image] murl10: Similar questions for various ducks and pigeons. Is there anywhere that true mallard, Muscovy ducks, or pigeons exist? At least in the USA, should most or all of these be IDed as domestic mallard, domestic Muscovy, and feral pigeon, or is it not as simple as that? Is there a way …

[image] oksanaetal: I think wild type mallards exist, since aren’t domestic ones usually not green-headed brown ones? It depends on the domestic breed. Some like the Silver Appleyard or Rouen Duck can have plumage very close to their wild counterparts. They differ greatly in size and proporti…

Wild-type Red Junglefowl are introduced in Georgia, so not all US observations of junglefowl are Domestic Chickens.

There are some wild-type Muscovy Ducks in south Texas, where they are a native species.

[image] raymie: Wild-type Red Junglefowl Their range is extremely limited within Georgia – the city of Fitzgerald. The ones outside the area of the city didn’t survive and they’ve never really expanded beyond it. They have interbred with domestic chickens over the many decades they’ve been ru…

Mallards don’t seem that tricky in North America and Eurasia where they are abundant wild birds. Therefore, label them as Anas platyrhynchos, which is true for both wild and domestic ones anyway, unless there is some evidence that the individuals in question are feral domestic ones. If there is, l…

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yongestation September 13, 2025, 8:49pm 4

Wild rock pigeons persist in parts of Eurasia and North Africa. Pigeons elsewhere can safely be labelled as feral pigeons (and almost always eventually are in my experience)

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