helmeted guineafowl
numida meleagris latin

Instead of wild poultry helmeted guineafowl can be used.

Helmeted Guineafowl like many other bipedal birds walk upon rough ground.

Helmeted Guineafowl are great runners, and can walk 10 km and more in a day.

However, occasional bigamy has been recorded for the Helmeted Guineafowl.

Helmeted Guineafowl are often domesticated, and it is this species that is sold in Western supermarkets.

They include the helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris).

Savannah: giraffes, zebras, ostrich and helmeted guineafowl.

The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is also abundant.

H. pratasi - helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Helmeted Guineafowl - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

In Esperanto, therefore, a numido would be any bird of the genus Numida, and a meleagra numido the helmeted guineafowl specifically.

Guineafowl have a long history of domestication, mainly involving the Helmeted Guineafowl; in the UK they were usually known as "gleanies".

The guineafowl are native to Africa, but the Helmeted Guineafowl has been domesticated, and both feral and wild-type birds have been introduced elsewhere.

The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida.

PHASIANIDAE Numida meleagris (Helmeted Guineafowl)

The Helmeted Guineafowl has been domesticated and introduced outside its natural range, for example in southern France (where they are known as pintade), the West Indies, and the United States.

The East African Game Reserve: Rothschild Giraffe, Grant's Zebra, Llama, Dromedary Camel, Helmeted Guineafowl and Nyala.

The guineafowls are characterised in South Africa by the Crested Guineafowl which is restricted to bushveld, and the Helmeted Guineafowl, which is widespread and common in urban and agricultural areas.

Most species of guineafowl have a dark grey or blackish plumage with dense white spots, but both members of the genus Agelastes lack the spots (as do some domestic variants of the Helmeted Guineafowl).

In turn the king crickets have their own natural predators, such as the Hadeda Ibis, Fiscal Shrike and Helmeted Guineafowl, birds at home in the urban habitat and able to deal with such large insects.

Guineafowl, sometimes called Pintade, are a family of birds originating from Africa, related to other game birds such as the pheasants, turkeys and partridges; they have a long history of domestication, mainly involving the Helmeted Guineafowl.

The African Boardwalk takes visitors on an elevated trail through the African Savannah where visitors see animals from Africa, including reticulated giraffe, grey crowned crane, lesser kudu, Ankole-Watusi cattle , ostrich, serval, and helmeted guineafowl.

It has artificial termite mounds for the free-roaming African animals, such as the East African Crowned Cranes, Grant's Zebra, Greater Kudu, Helmeted Guineafowl, impala, Masai giraffe, Nile lechwe, ostrich, and wildebeest.

These comprise the endemic subspecies of Buff-banded Rail, the introduced Green Junglefowl and Helmeted Guineafowl, the White-breasted Waterhen, Eastern Reef Egret, Nankeen Night-Heron and the introduced Christmas Island White-eye.

Other animals exhibited in the walk-through area include Asian elephant, American flamingo, collared peccary, black-capped squirrel monkey, Indian flying fox, alpaca, Indian peafowl, pygmy goat, African pied crow, domestic rabbit, helmeted guineafowl, tufted capuchin, screamer, turaco, golden pheasant, Victoria crowned pigeon, and kookaburra.

The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is also abundant.

H. silvaï - guinea fowl (Numida meleagris mitrata)

The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida.

PHASIANIDAE Numida meleagris (Helmeted Guineafowl)