Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, April.

Lynn M Stone / Free-range New Hampshire rooster, by corn pile in snow-covered field. Higganum, Connecticut, USA.

Eric Baccega / Portrait of Yali hunter in traditional dress, with nose adornment made of wild pig's bones, and rooster feather head-dress. West Papua, former Irian-Jaya, Indonesia, August 2002

Georgette Douwma / Rescued battery hens with rooster. The chickens often lack feathers when they come out of the battery barns. UK.

Georgette Douwma / Cockerel (Gallus gallus domesticus) crowing in hen run, UK

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) male, Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, April

Loic Poidevin / Black Chicken of Challans, Vendee, France. July.

Loic Poidevin / Black Chickens of Challans, rooster with four hens, Vendee, France. July.

Phil Savoie / Brahma chicken rooster, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, April.

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) cock, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Mark Taylor / Silkie Serama Cockerel.

Mark Taylor / Silkie Serama Cockerels.