Gallus sonneratii
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii), also known as Sonnerat's junglefowl, is one of the wild ancestors of the domestic chicken together with the red junglefowl and other junglefowls. The species epithet commemorates the French explorer Pierre Sonnerat. Local names include Komri in Rajasthan, Geera kur or Parda komri in Gondi, Jangli Murghi in Hindi, Raan kombdi in Marathi, Kattu Kozhi in Tamil and Malayalam, Kaadu koli in Kannada and Tella adavi kodi in Telugu.
The male has a black cape with ochre spots and the body plumage on a grey ground colour is finely patterned. The elongated neck feathers are dark and end in a small, hard, yellowish plate; this peculiar structure making them popular for making high-grade artificial flies. The male has red wattles and combs but not as strongly developed as in the red junglefowl. Legs of males are red and have spurs while the yellow legs of females usually lack spurs. The central tail feathers are long and sickle shaped. Males have an eclipse plumage in which they moult their colourful neck feathers in summer during or after the breeding season.
The female is duller and has black and white streaking on the underparts and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Mudumalai National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Eravikulam National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taronga Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Zoo Koki (Parque zoológico y botánico) | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Zoo Lagos | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 5 | Avifauna | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Ogród zoologiczny w Lubinie | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Grey Junglefowl sighting in Nagarhole National Park on a given day, based on 1,214 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 272 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–May and November
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Grey Junglefowl in Nagarhole National Park on a given day, against about 40% in December, the lowest month. Those are among Nagarhole National Park's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain a month against 270 mm in July.
Between 2 and 5 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grey Junglefowl sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
2nd of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Grey Junglefowl sightings, Nagarhole National Park ranks 2nd at about 50%. The best odds are in Periyar National Park (India, about 60%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Phasianidae
The closest relatives of the Grey Junglefowl that you can see in Nagarhole National Park (family Phasianidae, Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) are Common Peafowl (about 70%), Grey Francolin (about 10%) and Red Spurfowl (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grey Junglefowl is recorded against all the birds logged in Nagarhole National Park (1,214 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
