Birds of Prey
Least Concern
Quick Facts
Mass1.59 kg
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
The helmeted guinea fowl 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.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Top parks for Helmeted Guineafowl. Sightings recorded in 200 safari areas total.
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