Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagris · Bird
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Helmeted guineafowl run rather than fly through the savanna, grassland, scrub and farmland of sub-Saharan Africa, always near fresh water, walking 10 km or more a day and roosting together in trees at night. Outside the breeding season they gather in flocks of about 25, sometimes up to a hundred, and they call loudly and harshly when disturbed. This is the guineafowl kept on farms the world over, raised for meat and eggs, its feathers sold too, and farmers keep it to eat ticks and insects in the fields.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In flocks, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Gives
Guineafowl Meat, Guineafowl Egg, Guineafowl Feather
Sources
- Matthew Portner, Numida meleagris (helmeted guineafowl). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2022.
- Helmeted guineafowl. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Pintade de Numidie. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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