Helmeted Guineafowl
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Helmeted Guineafowl

Numida meleagris

Overview

Kruger National Park, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are among the 28 atlas places where the Helmeted Guineafowl is recorded. Records concentrate most heavily in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and the map shows where these sightings cluster. The atlas holds about 259,000 records of Numida meleagris across 14 countries.

Recording seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months when the bird is recorded there.

Records
258,649
Countries
14
Atlas places
28
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Helmeted Guineafowl as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 213264 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 9898 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 9394 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 7170 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Uganda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4655 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3911 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Botswana
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2237 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1955 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Australia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1941 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1368 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Helmeted Guineafowl