Handsome Spurfowl

When to see the Handsome Spurfowl

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Handsome Spurfowl

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Handsome Spurfowl

The handsome spurfowl is a species of bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is a large, up to 35 cm long, terrestrial forest bird with a dark reddish brown plumage, grey head, red bill and legs, brown iris, bare red orbital skin and rufous grey below. Both sexes are similar. The female is slightly smaller than male. The young has duller plumage.

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Easily confused with

Chestnut-naped SpurfowlPternistis castaneicollisThe chestnut-naped spurfowl is a species of bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. Jackson's SpurfowlPternistis jacksoniJackson's spurfowl has distinctive red bill and legs which sets it apart from the moorland francolin which overlaps in range and the smaller scaly spurfowl is unmarked on the underside. Clapperton's SpurfowlPternistis clappertoniClapperton's spurfowl is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae.