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Numida meleagris (Helmeted Guineafowl)

Synonyms: Phasianus meleagris (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It is native to Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced into the West Indies, Brazil, Australia and Europe (e.g. southern France).
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Infraspecies

Numida meleagris coronatus (Natal helmeted guineafowl)
Numida meleagris damarensis
Numida meleagris galeatus (West African guineafowl)
Numida meleagris marungensis (Angolan helmeted guineafowl)
Numida meleagris meleagris (Helmeted guineafowl)
Numida meleagris mitratus (Madagascar tufted guineafowl)
Numida meleagris papillosus
Numida meleagris reichenowi (Helmeted guineafowl)
Numida meleagris sabyi
Numida meleagris somaliensis (Somali tufted guineafowl)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.4428
EDGE Score: 2.59844
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.494 lbs (1.585 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  39.4 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Plants [3]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  9
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Incubation [4]  27 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Snout to Vent Length [1]  23 inches (58 cm)

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Boerhavia erecta (erect spiderling)[6]
Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge)[6]
Sclerocarya birrea (marula)[6]
Sorghum arundinaceum (broom corn)[6]
Stereospermum kunthianum[6]

Predators

Melierax metabates (Dark Chanting Goshawk)[7]
Micronisus gabar (Gabar goshawk)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0