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VULTERINE GUINEAFOWLAcryllium vulturinum© Ariadne Van Zandbergen The Vulturine Guineafowl is the largest extant guineafowl species. It is a resident in northeast Africa, from southern Ethiopia through Kenya and just into northern Tanzania. The adult has a bare blue face and black neck, and although all other guineafowl have unfeathered heads, this species looks particularly like a vulture because of the long bare neck and head. Vulturine Guineafowl is a gregarious species, forming flocks outside the breeding season typically of about 25 birds. This species’ food is seeds and small invertebrates. This guineafowl is terrestrial, and will run rather than fly when alarmed. Despite the open habitat, it tends to keep to cover, and roosts in trees. It makes loud chink-chink-chink-chink-chink calls. It breeds in dry and open habitats with scattered bushes and trees, such as savannah or grassland. It usually lays 4-8 cream-coloured eggs in a well-hidden grass-lined scrape. Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulturine_Guineafowl Other Posts: Vulturine Guineafowl East African Crested Guineafowl Oscellated Turkey

VULTERINE GUINEAFOWL
Acryllium vulturinum
© Ariadne Van Zandbergen

The Vulturine Guineafowl is the largest extant guineafowl species. It is a resident in northeast Africa, from southern Ethiopia through Kenya and just into northern Tanzania. The adult has a bare blue face and black neck, and although all other guineafowl have unfeathered heads, this species looks particularly like a vulture because of the long bare neck and head.

Vulturine Guineafowl is a gregarious species, forming flocks outside the breeding season typically of about 25 birds. This species’ food is seeds and small invertebrates. This guineafowl is terrestrial, and will run rather than fly when alarmed. Despite the open habitat, it tends to keep to cover, and roosts in trees. It makes loud chink-chink-chink-chink-chink calls.

It breeds in dry and open habitats with scattered bushes and trees, such as savannah or grassland. It usually lays 4-8 cream-coloured eggs in a well-hidden grass-lined scrape.

Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulturine_Guineafowl

Other Posts:

Vulturine Guineafowl

East African Crested Guineafowl

Oscellated Turkey

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