Name:Agelastes niger
Alias:Agelastes niger,Black Guineafowl
Outline:Landfowl
Family:Gallinariformes Gallinariidae Gallinariformis
length:40-43CM
Weight:Around 700g
Life:No textual research information is available
IUCN:LC
The Black Guineafowl (scientific name: Agelastes niger) has no subspecies.
The chicken's diet is mainly insect-based, including beetles, ants and termites, and other invertebrates such as millipedes and small frogs. As well as plant seeds, berries and branches. The breeding habits of this species are unclear, but the eggs are reddish brown, sometimes with yellow or purple spots. It may breed at any time of the year or during the dry season.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).
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