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Acryllium vulturinum
According to the encyclopedia, these big birds are native from northeast Africa, although this particular one was found in a reserve in Argentina. They resamble the vulture especially because of their long neck, they live in flocks and eat seed and small invertebrates. Female vulturine guineafowls are generally smaller than males. Its eggs are beige.
Thank you for the comments Megs and Manuela, I couldn´t agree more with your comment Meg: "ugly but beautiful too" =)
I've seen the regular guinea fowl people now keep as pets, never knew this one existed. Sort of intimidating looking!
Welcome! Cool bird, cool spotting, so it was my pleasure to give you an IDea ;-)...
Spotted on Sep 17, 2011
Submitted on Mar 17, 2012
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