Back to Animals
Chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus
Farm Bird
least concern
Omnivore
Chickens are farm birds that lay eggs and make fun clucking and crowing sounds. Roosters wake up the whole farm with their loud 'cock-a-doodle-doo' call!
Habitat
Farms worldwide
Fun Facts
- •Chickens can recognize over 100 different faces!
- •A chicken lays about 300 eggs a year!
- •Roosters have a special crowing time at sunrise to say 'good morning'!
- •Chickens can see in color and have better vision than humans!
Sounds
Typical chicken clucking sound
call
Source: animal-sounds.org
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Aves
- order
- Galliformes
- family
- Phasianidae
- genus
- Gallus
- species
- gallus domesticus
Tags
farm
bird
eggs
domesticated