feral chicken

Feral chickens are derived from domestic chickens (Gallus domesticus) who have returned to the wild. Like the red junglefowl (the closest wild relative of domestic chickens), feral chickens will roost in bushes in order to avoid predators at night. {{cite web|author=Tove Danovitch| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/05/hawaii-feral-chicken-problem-kauai/674147/|title=Kaui's Feral Chickens Are Out of Control| website=The Atlantic|date=24 May 2023 |access-date=24 May 2023}}

Feral chickens typically form social groups composed of a dominant cockerel, several hens, and subordinate cocks. Sometimes the dominant cockerel is designated by a fight between cocks.{{cite journal|last=Leonard|first=Marty L.|author2=Zanette|date=1998|title=Female mate choice and male behaviour in domestic fowl|journal=Animal Behaviour|volume=56|pages=1099–1105|url=http://publish.uwo.ca/~lzanette/Web_papers/Anim_Behav_ML.pdf|accessdate=2008-04-25|doi=10.1006/anbe.1998.0886|pmid=9819324|issue=5|s2cid=45208700 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050515222302/http://publish.uwo.ca/%7Elzanette/Web_papers/Anim_Behav_ML.pdf|archive-date=2005-05-15|url-status=dead}}

Locations famous for feral chickens

=America=

Bermuda{{Cite web|title=Feral Chickens|url=https://environment.bm/feral-chickens|access-date=2021-09-24|website=The Department of Environment and Natural Resources|language=en-GB}}
British Virgin Islands
Fitzgerald, Georgia, United States
George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Gotha, Florida, United States
Houston, Texas, United States
Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Key West, Florida, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Maui, Hawaii, United States
Miami, Florida, United States
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States{{Cite web|title=Feral chickens running wild in New Orleans|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feral-chickens-running-wild-in-new-orleans/|access-date=2021-09-24|website=www.cbsnews.com|date=12 April 2011 |language=en-US}}
Oviedo, Florida, United States
St. Augustine, Florida, United States
San Juan Bautista, California, United States
Vieques, Puerto Rico, United States
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Yuba City, California, United States
Ybor City, Florida, United States

=Asia=

Israel, Jaffa

=Australasia=

Galston Gorge, Sydney, Australia
Niue, New Zealand
Port Chalmers, New Zealand

=Europe=

Chicken Roundabout, Bungay, England{{Cite web |url=http://www.chickenroundabout.co.uk/ |title=Chicken Roundabout! |access-date=2009-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516061725/http://www.chickenroundabout.co.uk/ |archive-date=2009-05-16 |url-status=dead }}
Nieuw Binckhorst, Den Haag, The Netherlands

=Oceania=

Forests of Guam,{{cite web | title=Nature & Wildlife - Chamorro Culture | website=Guam Visitors Bureau | publisher=Government of Guam | date=2018-09-24 | url=http://www.visitguam.com/chamorro-culture/nature/wildlife/ | access-date=2021-04-26}} although not significantly integrated into the trophic levels in this location{{cite journal | last1=Fritts | first1=Thomas H. | last2=Rodda | first2=Gordon H. | title=The Role of Introduced Species in the Degradation of Island Ecosystems: A Case History of Guam | journal=Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | publisher=Annual Reviews | volume=29 | issue=1 | year=1998 | issn=0066-4162 | doi=10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.113 | pages=113–140 | bibcode=1998AnRES..29..113F | s2cid=59396297| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1234955 }}

References

External links

[http://www.upc-online.org/cockfighting/foragers.html Chickens are Foragers, Not Fighters], By Karen Davis, PhD, United Poultry Concerns
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090516061725/http://www.chickenroundabout.co.uk/ Chicken Roundabout!]
[http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/19778-chickens-on-white-oak-drive/page__p__317834#entry317834 Chickens on White Oak Drive] – HAIF

Category:Domesticated birds

Category:Introduced birds

Chicken, Feral

Category:Chickens