free range birds excluding chickens/ducks/turkeys

[Mo_fawaazzz]

List of the free range birds I know ("free range" meaning they stay put at your yard instead of going wild and never returning. Some of these birds even come back to their coop whilst others prefer a tree to roost on each night. some may wander but they always come back at night):
chickens (especially gamefowl)
ducks (even my domesticated mallards -who could fly really well- came back each night)
muscovies (idk if this whether this is classified as a duck or a goose)
peafowl
guineafowl
turkeys
quaker parakeets (needs super stable food source)
rose-ringed parakeets (needs super stable food source)
geese
house sparrows (with adequate nesting/food supply)
pigeons

birds that I've tried to free range but they decided to leave:
pheasants
quail



are there any other exotic fowl that tend to have free-range tendencies (like they stay in their home range or return to their loft)?
How do birds like peafowl and muscovies just tend to free range? They are superb flyers and can leave and never return whenever they want. I've had guineas roam off everyday but come back to roost at night. there were ample wild grain and bugs for them to eat. My adult birds barely relied on commercial pellets. my pigeons fly off to eat wild grain and tidbits but always return to their coop before sundown.
what instinct drives birds to do this? Also, why doesn't this "free range" thing work out with pheasant and bobwhites. The bobwhites left the second they got a hint of freedom, even though they had food and everything. They never came back.

do lady-amherst pheasants and golden pheasants free range like chickens or will they go off like bobwhites?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

muscovies (idk if this whether this is classified as a duck or a goose

They're ducks, not at all geese

 

[Mo_fawaazzz]

They're ducks, not at all geese

I assumed they were ducks too, but then I did a bit more research..

- Gray (1958) lists muscovy hybrids with bar-headed geese, swan geese, snow goose, Canda goose, and spur-winged goose.
- they can also breed with Mallards and have mule offspring.
- "It is actually in the Shelduck family and its closest relative in the Standard is the Egyptian Goose." - American Poultry Association

*the Egyptian goose

Also, take a look at a baby Muscovy:

compared to a baby Canada goose (below):

(note the short bills)

now a pic of a newly hatched mallard:

note how long his mallard bill is.
*all photos from Google, belong to their owners.

the odd Muscovy looks like a mix between the two, but as babies they lean closely toward's the goose beak. At juvenile age, they get more of a shelduck bill. They behave like geese in terms of aggression, eat like ducks, but sound like a komodo dragon. They roost like chickens, nest in tree-holes like bluebirds, and don't even have fully waterproofed feathers like most waterfowl. This animal is definitely unique. it can be compared to geese though.

This controversy has been going on for a long time. Genetically, muscovies are closely related to shelducks and many geese more than they are related to Mallards.
I honestly don't know what this cool bird should be classified as. It's like a mixture of a bunch of animals..

 

[007Sean]

List of the free range birds I know ("free range" meaning they stay put at your yard instead of going wild and never returning. Some of these birds even come back to their coop whilst others prefer a tree to roost on each night. some may wander but they always come back at night):
chickens (especially gamefowl)
ducks (even my domesticated mallards -who could fly really well- came back each night)
muscovies (idk if this whether this is classified as a duck or a goose)
peafowl
guineafowl
turkeys
quaker parakeets (needs super stable food source)
rose-ringed parakeets (needs super stable food source)
geese
house sparrows (with adequate nesting/food supply)
pigeons

birds that I've tried to free range but they decided to leave:
pheasants
quail



are there any other exotic fowl that tend to have free-range tendencies (like they stay in their home range or return to their loft)?
How do birds like peafowl and muscovies just tend to free range? They are superb flyers and can leave and never return whenever they want. I've had guineas roam off everyday but come back to roost at night. there were ample wild grain and bugs for them to eat. My adult birds barely relied on commercial pellets. my pigeons fly off to eat wild grain and tidbits but always return to their coop before sundown.
what instinct drives birds to do this? Also, why doesn't this "free range" thing work out with pheasant and bobwhites. The bobwhites left the second they got a hint of freedom, even though they had food and everything. They never came back.

do lady-amherst pheasants and golden pheasants free range like chickens or will they go off like bobwhites?

Pheasants and quail do not free range.