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Guttera verreauxi

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Guttera verreauxi Life habits and morphological characteristics

The West African crested chicken has a body length of 46-56 cm, a wingspan of 75-100 cm, and a weight of 910-1160 grams. It has a distinctive black top, curly feathers forming a crest, the bare skin on the head and neck is smooth gray-blue, and the throat is red. The plumage is thick black with dense white spots. The irises are dark brown, the beak pink, and the legs grey.

Guttera verreauxi Distribution range and habitat

It is distributed in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d 'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.
It inhabits forest margins, secondary forests, forest belts and grassland shrubland.

Guttera verreauxi Detailed Introduction

Western Crested Guineafowl (Guttera verreauxi), no subspecies.

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The West African crested chicken is omnivorous. Plant foods include seeds, fruits, and berries of the rubiaceae, Amaranthaceae, Compositaceae, malvaceae, and legumes. They also eat insects and invertebrates.

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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