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Vulturine Guineafowl

Acryllium vulturinum

Photo by patty
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Description:

According to the encyclopedia, these big birds are native from northeast Africa, although this particular one was found in a reserve in Argentina. They resamble the vulture especially because of their long neck, they live in flocks and eat seed and small invertebrates. Female vulturine guineafowls are generally smaller than males. Its eggs are beige.

Species ID Suggestions

Vulturine Guineafowl

Acryllium vulturinum

Comments (17)

Thank you mati and santi =)
Thank you for the comments Megs and Manuela, I couldn´t agree more with your comment Meg: "ugly but beautiful too" =)
Brilliant colour, ugly but beautiful too!
Yes, Carolina, I agree... Thank you all for the comments.Greetings.
WOW WOW WOW! It looks like a bird from a video game!
I've seen the regular guinea fowl people now keep as pets, never knew this one existed. Sort of intimidating looking!
Welcome! Cool bird, cool spotting, so it was my pleasure to give you an IDea ;-)...
Thank you very much all for the comments and thank you bayucca for the ID =)
It is a native bird from Africa: Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum).

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