Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:21f9890c-ec2a-4c52-b6bb-25f9e392386e

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=order:GALLIFORMES
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence

Recorded In Australia

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Description

They are chicken-like in appearance, with rounded bodies and blunt wings, and range in size from small (6 inches) to large (4 feet). They are mainly terrestrial birds and their wings are short and rounded for short distanced flights. source: Wikipedia