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WoodlandScrapeLarge · 440 g
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The double-spurred spurfowl is 30–34 cm (12–13 in) in length. The male is mainly brown, sparingly streaked and spotted darker and cream above, chest and flank feathers are dark brown edged and centrally spotted cream. The face is pale cream finely flecked with dark brown, and the head features a chestnut crown and white supercilium. It has a chestnut neck collar, white cheek patches and brown wings. The male usually has two spurs on each leg, the upper one being blunt. The legs are dull green.
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When to see the Double-spurred Spurfowl
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Double-spurred Spurfowl
The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Mauritania.
About the Double-spurred Spurfowl
The double-spurred spurfowl is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Like most spurfowls, it is restricted to Africa. It is a resident breeder in tropical West Africa, but there is a small and declining isolated population in Morocco.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-necked SpurfowlPternistis leucoscepusVoice: The call of a yellow-necked spurfowl is a series of scratchy descending upslurs, up to seven in a series.
Erckel's SpurfowlPternistis erckeliiThe largest African spurfowl, Erckel's spurfowl is 38–43 cm (15–17 in) in length, with females being slightly smaller than males.
Red-billed SpurfowlPternistis adspersusThe red-billed spurfowl, also known as the red-billed francolin, is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae.
Side by side: Double-spurred Spurfowl vs Erckel's Spurfowl · Double-spurred Spurfowl vs Yellow-necked Spurfowl
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