parent_taxon falcipennis
Falcipennis is a genus of birds in the ___MASK1___ family that comprises three very similar species : Siberian ___MASK1___ , Falcipennis falcipennis Spruce ___MASK1___ , Falcipennis canadensis Franklin ' s ___MASK1___ , Falcipennis franklinii Both inhabit northern coniferous forests and live on conifer needles during the winter . Both have breeding systems with dispersed male territories , intermediate between the leks of some ___MASK1___ and the monogamy of others . The ___MASK85___ are a family of heavy , groundliving birds which includes pheasants , partridges , junglefowl , chickens , Old World quail , and peafowl . The family includes many of the most popular gamebirds . The family is a large one , and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies , the Phasianinae , and the Perdicinae . Sometimes , additional families and birds are treated as part of this family . For example , the American Ornithologists ' Union includes Tetraonidae ( grouse ), Numididae ( guineafowl ), and Meleagrididae ( turkeys ) as subfamilies in ___MASK85___ . ___MASK1___ are a group of birds from the order Galliformes , in the family ___MASK85___ . ___MASK1___ are frequently assigned to the subfamily Tetraoninae ( sometimes Tetraonidae ), a classification supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence studies , and applied by the American Ornithologists ' Union , ITIS , and others . ___MASK1___ inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere , from pine forests to moorland and mountainside , from 83 ° N ( rock ptarmigan in northern Greenland ) to 28 ° N ( Attwater ' s prairie chicken in Texas ). Attwater ' s prairie chicken (" ___MASK43___ cupido attwateri ") is a highly endangered subspecies of the ___MASK36___ that is native to coastal Texas and Louisiana in the United States . ___MASK87___ is a genus of birds in the ___MASK1___ subfamily . The genus name is derived from the Latin name of a gamebird , probably the black ___MASK1___ . The rock ptarmigan (') is a medium - sized gamebird in the ___MASK1___ family . It is known simply as the ptarmigan in the UK and in Canada , where it is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut , Canada , and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada , and colloquially as the snow chicken "' in the United States . In Japan , it is known as the " raich " (  ), which means " thunder bird ". It is the official bird of Gifu , Nagano , and Toyama Prefectures and is a protected species nationwide . Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both ___MASK84___ and population . Geographically located in the south central part of the country , Texas shares borders with the U . S . states of Louisiana to the east , Arkansas to the northeast , Oklahoma to the north , New Mexico to the west , and the Mexican states of Chihuahua , Coahuila , Nuevo León , and Tamaulipas to the southwest , while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast . The ___MASK90___ are an order of heavy - bodied ground - feeding birds that includes turkey , ___MASK1___ , chicken , New World quail and Old World quail , ptarmigan , partridge , pheasant , junglefowl and the Cracidae . The name derives from " gallus ", Latin for " cock " or " rooster ". Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds , landfowl , gallinaceous birds , or galliforms . " Wildfowl " or just " fowl " are also often used for the ___MASK90___ , but usually these terms also refer to waterfowl ( Anseriformes ), and occasionally to other commonly hunted birds . This group has about 290 species , one or more of which are found in essentially every part of the world ' s continents ( except for the innermost deserts and perpetual ice ). They are rarer on islands , and in contrast to the closely related waterfowl , are essentially absent from oceanic islands  unless introduced there by humans . Several species have been domesticated during their long and extensive relationships with humans . The chicken (" ___MASK75___ gallus domesticus ") is a type of domesticated fowl , a subspecies of the red junglefowl . It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals , with a population of more than 19 billion as of 2011 . Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food , consuming both their meat and their eggs .