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Traditional classification of birds
Birds are divided into birds and poultry:

A wild bird that is good at flying. Birds feed on plant seeds, insects, voles or snakes, and most of them are tame.

poultry

Many poultry are wild birds originally, and are domesticated by human beings for economic or other purposes. Poultry breeding and domestication has a history of more than 7,000 years in China. It is understood that the aborigines who began to domesticate wild animals are Banpo aborigines. Over the past 7,000 years, many famous products have been cultivated. For example, among the flightless domestic ducks domesticated by mallard ducks, Beijing Duck is a good variety, with an annual output of 70 ~ 65,438+020 eggs, and the Beijing Roast Duck made from it is famous at home and abroad. Other common poultry are: geese domesticated by wild geese and domestic chickens domesticated by original chickens, which retain the function of flying, but cannot fly too far, and are the most common poultry raised by human beings. Modern domestic chicken originated from wild chicken, its domestication history was at least about 4000 years, and many excellent new varieties were artificially cultivated, but it was not until about 1800 that chickens and eggs became mass-produced commodities. Poultry not only provides meat and eggs for human beings, but also its feathers and feces have important practical value.