Red-necked Spurfowl

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When to see the Red-necked Spurfowl

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-necked Spurfowl

The map shades 17 countries with regular records, and 2 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 United Arab Emirates, Eswatini.

About the Red-necked Spurfowl

The red-necked spurfowl or red-necked francolin, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae that is a resident species in southern Africa.

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Easily confused with

Red-billed SpurfowlPternistis adspersusThe red-billed spurfowl, also known as the red-billed francolin, is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. 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. Yellow-necked SpurfowlPternistis leucoscepusVoice: The call of a yellow-necked spurfowl is a series of scratchy descending upslurs, up to seven in a series.

Side by side: Cape Spurfowl vs Red-necked Spurfowl · Erckel's Spurfowl vs Red-necked Spurfowl · Red-necked Spurfowl vs Yellow-necked Spurfowl