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The helmeted guinea fowl is a large, 53 to 58 cm (21 to 23 in) bird with a round body and small head. They weigh about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb). The body plumage is gray-black speckled with white. Like other guinea fowl, this species has an unfeathered head, which in this species is decorated with a dull yellow or reddish bony knob, and bare skin with red, blue, or black hues. The wings are short and rounded, and the tail is likewise short. Various subspecies are proposed, differences in appearance being mostly a large variation in shape, size, and colour of the casque and facial wattles.
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When to see the Helmeted Guineafowl
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 Helmeted Guineafowl
The map shades 75 countries with regular records, and 34 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 Canada, Spain, Taiwan, Germany, India, Chile, Argentina, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Panama, Czechia, France, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Italy, Belize, Israel, Greece, Burundi, St. Barthélemy, Trinidad & Tobago, Yemen, Serbia, Mali, São Tomé & Príncipe, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, Cambodia, China, Albania, Cyprus, Denmark.
About the Helmeted Guineafowl
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.
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Easily confused with
Eastern Crested GuineafowlGuttera pucheraniThe three species of crested guinea fowl have a total length of around 50 cm (20 in) and weigh 721–1,543 g (1.590–3.402 lb).
Vulturine GuineafowlAcryllium vulturinumThe vulturine guinea fowl is a large (61–71 centimetres (24–28 in)) bird with a round body and small head.
White-breasted GuineafowlAgelastes meleagridesIt has a black plumage with a small, bare, red head, white breast, long, black tail, greenish-brown bill, and greyish feet.
Side by side: Eastern Crested Guineafowl vs Helmeted Guineafowl · Helmeted Guineafowl vs Vulturine Guineafowl
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