Feral rooster perched high in a tropical tree, red comb poking through dense green canopy

Chicken in a tree

Red Junglefowl / Feral Chicken (Gallus gallus) Domestic chickens descend from the Red Junglefowl, and feral populations worldwide revert to ancestral habits like roosting in trees — exactly what this rooster is doing. Free-ranging and feral chickens are a common sight across the tropics, thriving anywhere warm weather and scattered food let them nest and roost in the open. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map