Guttera edouardi

IUCN

Alias：Guttera edouardi，Southern Crested Guineafowl

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Guttera edouardi
Aliases：Guttera edouardi，Southern Crested Guineafowl
Outline：Landfowl
Family：Gallinariformes Gallinariformes Gallinariformes

Vital signs

length：46-56CM
Weight：721-1573g
lifetime：No textual research information is available

Feature

It has a distinctive black top, crimped feathers forming a crest

Details

The Guttera edouardi, also known as the Southern Crested Guineafowl, was once a subspecies of the East African Crested Guineafowl before becoming a separate species in 2014. In pairs or small groups, eat fruits, berries, seeds and invertebrates. Often follows monkeys, pecking at food that primates drop from tree tops. Breeding in spring and summer, the female digs a shallow pit in thick vegetation for a nest and lays 4-5 eggs per litter.

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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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Location

It is distributed in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
It inhabits forests and dense riverside woodlands.

Form

It has a body length of 46-56 cm, a wingspan of 75-100 cm and a weight of 721-1573 g. There is a distinctive black crest formed by curly feathers, the shape of which varies according to the subspecies, the bare skin on the head and neck is gray-blue, and there are large red spots around the eyes and on the forehead and throat. The plumage is pure black with dense white spots. Red iris, pink beak, gray legs.