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Birds
Helmeted guinea fowl
Helmeted guinea fowl · Numida meleagris
Helmeted guinea fowl roam open savannas in groups, standing out with their speckled plumage and loud calls.
Fact file
- Size
- About 53 centimetres long and around 1.3 kilograms in weight
- Males and females
- Sexes similar in colour, males often slightly larger
- Sounds
- Raucous, trumpeting calls and loud chattering
- Diet
- Seeds, insects, young shoots, berries and small invertebrates
- Offspring
- 6 to 12 eggs hidden on the ground, incubation period around 26 days
How to identify Helmeted guinea fowl
Helmeted guinea fowl are striking thanks to their slate-grey, spotted plumage, covered in many white dots. The head is largely unfeathered and particularly eye-catching due to the bright blue skin, red wattles and, characteristically, a small horn-like casque on the crown.
At around 53 centimetres in length and with a stocky body shape, helmeted guinea fowl look compact. The short tail is held downwards and the wings are rounded. Their upright posture and broad, powerful legs make them easy to distinguish from other gamebirds.
More in the app
With Wildful Stories+ you also get in the app:
- general viewing tips
- one place where you can see Helmeted guinea fowl
Where Helmeted guinea fowl live
Namibia
- Kwando Core Area
- Brandberg
- Buffalo Core Area
- Bwabwata Nationalpark
- Dolomite & Olifantsrus
- Erongo Gebirge
- Fish River Canyon
- Halali
- Hoanib
- Kalahari
- Lüderitz
- Mahango Core Area
- Mudumu Nationalpark
- Namib-Naukluft Nationalpark
- NamibRand Nature Reserve
- Namutoni
- Nkasa Rupara National Park
- Okaukuejo
- Palmwag
- Rundu
- Sossusvlei
- Spitzkoppe
- Twyfelfontein
- Waterberg Plateau
- Windhoek
South Africa
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