vulturine guineafowl
acryllium vulturinum latin

Vulturine Guineafowl is a gregarious species, forming flocks outside the breeding season typically of about 25 birds.

The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is the largest extant guineafowl species.

One of the largest aviaries in Europe, this exhibit is home to birds including scarlet ibis, American flamingos, cattle egrets, purple-crested turacos, storks, and vulturine guineafowl.

The Helmeted and Vulturine Guineafowl generally reside in open or semiopen habitats such as savanna or semideserts, while the remaining species of guineafowl mainly inhabit forests.

However, they will also opportunistically eat rodents, reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds (especially ground-based types like the Vulturine Guineafowl), fish and sometimes smaller predators (such as foxes, jackals, martens and smaller felid species).

This family of insect and seed-eating, ground-nesting birds resemble partridges, but with featherless heads, though both members of the genus Guttera have a distinctive black crest, and the Vulturine Guineafowl has a downy brown patch on the nape.

The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is the largest extant guineafowl species.