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“Reichenow’s Guineafowl” (reichenowi), localized on the savannas of Kenya and Tanzania, has a remarkably tall, orange-brown casque, bright aqua-blue facial skin, black throat-wattles, broad, red cheek-wattles that connect over the cere, forming a “handlebar moustache.”
The Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It is native to Africa and has been widely introduced, as a domesticated species, into the West Indies, North America, Australia, and Europe.
A large-bodied, small-headed, slaty-gray gamebird perfectly lined with rows of hundreds of white spots. The distinctive head sports a strange bone-like casque and naked warty facial skin, which is colored white, blue, or red depending on geographic location.
8 lis 2023 · Adults have a large, horn-like, bony casque or ‘helmet’ on the head, and long, pendulous blue wattles with red tips on the sides of the face. Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) Thabazimbi district, Limpopo Photo by Neels Putter. The base of the casque is surrounded by bare red skin extending to the cere and hind crown.
As other guineafowls the body is dark grey to black in color and covered in white spots. Head and most of the neck is featherless. It has a characteristic helm-shaped bony protrusion on its head. Facial and neck skin is blue with red patches starting at the base of the beak.
Their bald faces and necks consist of blue-colored skin. They have an orange or brown helmet cap on their featherless heads. 2. They choose to walk – even though they can fly. Guineafowls are terrestrial birds and spend most of their time scavenging the grounds.
The helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl 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, [ 2 ] Australia and Europe.
