are all birds called fowl?
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Many birds that are eaten by humans are fowl, including poultry such as chickens or turkeys, game birds such as pheasants or partridges, other wildfowl like guineafowl or peafowl, and waterfowl such as ducks or geese.
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Parrots are members of the order Psittaciformes, which includes more than 350 bird species, including parakeets, macaws, cockatiels and cockatoos, according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Though there are many types of parrots, all parrot species have a few traits in common.
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Turkey, either of two species of birds classified as members of either the family Phasianidae or Meleagrididae (order Galliformes). The best known is the common turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), a native game bird of North America that has been widely domesticated for the table.
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Foul is an adjective that means bad or unpleasant. Fowl is a noun that refers to birds.
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A hen is both a bird and an animal since a bird is considered an animal.
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Newborn Penguins are named chicks or nestlings. However, the common and widely used term is a chick. They also are called young penguins when speaking in general terms. Baby penguins assemble groups called crèches (from French).
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What's in a name? Female turkeys are called hens, male turkeys are stags and baby turkeys are called poults until they are five weeks old.
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An avian, also known as featheries, is a bird or bird-like character, and/or person who generally identifies with said phenotype. As characters, this includes real birds, anthropomorphic birds, fantasy birds, and bird variants such as gryphons or cockatrices.
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Chickens are land fowl. Ducks are water fowl. ... Another major difference between ducks and chickens is that ducks are great fliers that can fly long distances, while chickens can barely hop up to their roosts. The physical ability to fly like ducks affects their entire anatomy.
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The scientific study of birds is called ornithology. People who study birds as a profession are called ornithologists.
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A goose (plural geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. ... Some other birds, mostly related to the shelducks, have "goose" as part of their names.
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The overall tree reveals some surprising relationships among bird species. Parrots are actually close relatives of falcons. Pigeons are more closely related to flamingos than they are to crows. And land fowl, like chickens, are related to ducks.
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“Fowl” is used to refer to waterfowl, such as ducks, swans, and geese; game fowl, such as turkey or pheasant; or domesticated barnyard birds like chickens.
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A mature male chicken is called a rooster or cock or roo. A mature female chicken is called a hen. ... An immature male chicken is called a cockerel and an immature female chicken a pullet. A chicken is a bird. There are over 150 varieties of domestic chickens.
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Answer has 25 votes. Scientifically speaking they are the same bird. Pigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae, which includes about 310 species.
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There are several generic names that can refer to any baby birds, from ducks to raptors to songbirds to shorebirds. The term "chick" is the most common, and can describe any baby bird of any species from the moment it hatches until it leaves the nest.
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Ducks, geese and swans. The 'wildfowl' are medium to large birds with rather long or very long necks, mostly short, broad bills, short legs and the front three toes joined by webs. ... Ducks are roughly divided into 'surface feeders', which rarely dive, and 'diving ducks', which dive under for food.