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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S.

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