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Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)



Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Class: Aves
Family: Numididae
Common Name: Helmeted Guineafowl
Genus: Numida
Species Name: meleagris

About The Helmeted Guineafowl

Numida meleagris has a native range covering much of Africa, encompassing Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The subspecies sabyi is probably now extinct in Morocco, although there is a possibility that it survives in the Middle Atlas (del Hoyo et al. 1994).

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Numida meleagris. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Africa: Egypt and Ethiopia
Dominican Republic
Eastern Australia
Kenya Solar Eclipse
Madagascar
Puerto Rico
Uganda and stops between

Member Lifelists

Africa
Australasia
North America
United States
World

Sites Where Observed

Location
Date
Notes
6/30/2001
There were large flocks of the Guineafowl in several areas of the park, and there were often piles of feathers.
1/21/2014
A small flock of them was flushed on the Rabo de Gato trail.
11/2/2017

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