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Crowned Guinea-fowl

Numida meleagris

The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It is native to Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced, as a domesticated species, into the West Indies, North America, Colombia, Brazil, Australia and Europe.

Crowned Guinea-fowl
Photo: eboy · CC BY-SA 3.0

Overview

The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It is native to Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced, as a domesticated species, into the West Indies, North America, Colombia, Brazil, Australia and Europe.

Habitat & distribution

Habitats

Terrestrial

Video

Cineradiographic (X-ray film) clip of a 2.1 kg helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), demonstrating the uniformity of thoracic widening in absence of an intermediate rib. Experimental subject in dorsoventral projection at 70 kV and 220 mA, X-ray positive. Head is toward bottom left of image. (see appended Quicktime file).Credit: Claessens L, O'Connor P, Unwin D · CC BY 2.5Source ↗

Sounds

alarm callKileo Jumah · Ngorongoro Conservation Area (crater floor), Arusha, Tanzania · https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

References

  1. GBIF Auto Sync GBIF
  2. WoRMS / Aphia World Register of Marine Species
  3. Wikipedia — Helmeted guinea fowl Wikipedia

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