#helmeted guineafowl

[textless]

#bird #helmeted guineafowl #polka dots #feather #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #macro #kenya #masai mara #i love polka dots #so i was pretty excited about these polka dot birds

[antiqueanimals]

Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Part of a collection of watercolors by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

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#birds #landfowl #guineafowl #helmeted guineafowl #M. Rabié

[birdblues]

Helmeted Guineafowl

#helmeted guineafowl #guineafowl #Numida meleagris #Galliformes #Numididae #Numida #bird #upl

[fyanimaldiversity]

Subspecies of helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

West African N. m. galeatus [x]

Ethiopian N. m. meleagris [x]

Reichenow’s N. m. reichenowi [x]

Tufted N. m. mitratus [x]

#Numida meleagris #guineafowl #helmeted guineafowl #subspecies #bird #Galliformes

[vintagewildlife]

Helmeted guineafowl By: G. V. Adkin From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

#fave #helmeted guineafowl #guineafowl #galliform #bird #1980 #1980s #G. V. Adkin #The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World (1980)

[dougdimmadodo]

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Family: Guineafowl Family (Numididae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Widely distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa, Helmeted Guineafowl (singular and plural) are easily recognized thanks to their striking spotted bodies, featherless blue-skinned heads and namesake bony "helmets” (which are short and rounded in females and taller and sharper in males.) Spending the day foraging on the ground and roosting in the branches of trees at night, members of this species favour dry, open habitats and live in large flocks throughout most of the year, breaking up into mating pairs during the spring breeding season (with both parents working in shifts to incubate their eggs, which resemble speckled Chicken eggs and are laid on the ground in ditches lined with twigs and leaves, and to raise their chicks, which are known as keets and are born without the helmets of adults) and returning to larger groups after their chicks have fledged in the late summer. The diet of Helmeted Guineafowl varies seasonally; throughout most of the year they feed largely on grasses, seeds, bulbs and roots, but as their nutritional needs change during the breeding season small animals such as insects, arachnids, snails and small vertebrates become more prominent in their diet - in particular, they are known to feed on large numbers of grass-dwelling ticks during the spring, and in doing so benefit other animals within their range by limiting the ability of ticks to spread between hosts and transfer diseases. While foraging in groups Helmeted Guineafowl vocalize near-constantly to notify their flockmates of their presence, and at the first sign of one of their many predators (including Leopards, Servals and a wide range of large snakes and birds-of-prey) the first individual to spot it will produce an extremely loud alarm call, prompting the group to scatter and run for shelter (although members of this species can fly in short bursts, they are far more capable on the ground and will only take to the air as a last resort.) Both within their home range and throughout the wider world captive populations of Helmeted Guineafowl have been farmed for their meat and eggs for centuries, allowing escaped feral populations to have become established in parts of Australia, Europe and North America.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1428-Numida-meleagris

#Helmeted Guineafowl #guineafowl #bird #birds #galliformes #landfowl #zoology #biology #ornithology #animal #animals #wildlife #african wildlife

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Posting birds until I hit post limit: Helmeted guineafowl

#animals #helmeted guineafowl

[devilbunzz]

cool bird

#bird #helmeted guineafowl #art #my art #devilbunzz art #ok

[greencproductions]

Blue cranes

… and a helmeted guineafowl.

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#blue crane #helmeted guineafowl

[coffeenuts]

Numida meleagris by Gabriel Paladino Photography https://flic.kr/p/2nAhiWj

#IFTTT #Flickr #numida #meleagris #helmeted #guineafowl #gewone #tarentaal #impangele #pintadacomún

[arkiwii]

Got another bird ask coming your way. Do you think Perlica from Endfield is a Liberi? I see some people draw what I see as feathers in her hair as ears. I personally think she's a pretty safe bet for a Liberi, considering what comes up when you google Perlica (apparently the polish name for guinea fowl).

especially ones with colors like this, for the feathers that is. Numida meleagris, taken from https://hawaiibirdingtrails.hawaii.gov/bird/helmeted-guineafowl-domestic-type/

I haven't really checked that much into Endfield yet because I'm not really interested (and will never be able to play the game with my toaster of a computer)

There's apparently no other meaning to Perlica other than the polish name for the guineafowls, and it wouldn't be surprising for a character to be named after the genus or the name for the animal they're based on (Ptilopsis being the scientist name for northen white faced owl, for example)

But I have to say the plumicorns are weird, it really gives owls vibes (afaik, only Silence, Ptilopsis and Cronin (likely based on an owl) have plumicorns), which, well, only horned owls have plumicorns. And guineafowls do NOT have them. it doesn't ressemble the wing ears like Passenger or Irene have, so it's strange.

But she doesn't show other racial traits, she doesn't seem to have a tail or slit pupils like a Feline, and her plumicorns really do like feathers/fur rather than ears.

As for guineafowl, while I see the name, the ressemblance is... It's far from it. Which I'd find disappointing because I LOVE guineafowls feathers, they're seriously beautiful

Making a character based on one without those patterns is a waste and I am angry at whoever designed her!! /hj

#arknights #arknights endfield #askiwi #i guess we'll know when the game is out #but honestly my thing is; looks perfectly human? not related to fishes? its a bird

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MosaicMonday:

Anicent Roman mosaic, 1st c. CE, Pushkin Museum collection.

🆔 Top = probably an Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria), native to Asia. Bottom = Domesticated Guineafowl, derived from the Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris), native to Africa. (Both birds known in Europe since Ancient Greek times.)

#animals in art #birds in art #bird #birds #ancient art #Roman art #mosaic #parrot #guineafowl #domesticated guineafowl #Alexandrine Parakeet #Pushkin Museum #Mosaic Monday #species ID

[lost-lycaon]

Helmeted Guineafowl - Kruger National Park

It is unusual to see these guys perched in trees.

#guineafowl #south africa #africa #original photography on tumblr #kruger national park #southafricanbirds

[mogai-sunflowers]

if you were able to keep as many birds as you wanted and like, all their habitats were perfect and maintained and the laws all allowed it and everything, how many birds would you have and what species??

wooooooooooo baby i wish i could upload pictures of all of them but there's a limit of 30 per post and that's nowhere near enough adfasfasdf. soooooo here's the official list of all of my favorite birds!

blue jay, eurasian jay, stellers jay, black collared jay, azure jay, northern cardinal, vermillion cardinal, desert cardinal, pileated woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, eastern bluebird, mountain bluebird, gold finch, blue finch, scarlet finch, strawberry finch, rose finches, zebra finch, purple breasted sunbird, violet backed starling, blue vanga, blue dacnis, grandala, indigo bunting, lazuli bunting, rositas bunting, varied bunting, variegated fairy wren, splendid fairy wren, superb fairy wren, white winged fairy wren, philippine fairy bluebird, asian fairy bluebird, taiwan blue magpie, himalayan monal, tui, ravens, crows, blue crowned pigeon, victorian crowned pigeon, american robin, pink robin, lilac-breasted roller, european roller, indian roller, flying roller, blue-bellied roller, malachite kingfisher, woodlands kingfisher, azure kingfisher, rose-crested fruit dove, superb fruit dove, dracula parrot, hyacinth macaw, blue bird of paradise, anna's hummingbird, swordbilled hummingbird, swallowtailed hummingbird, fiery-throated hummingbird, lesser violetear, crowned woodnymph, blue chinned sapphire, mute swan, black swan, black-necked swan, bohemian waxwing, spangled cotinga, banded cotinga, brazilian tanager, australian diamond firetail, flame bowerbird, asian golden weaver, golden pheasant, malayan peacock pheasant, south philippine dwarf kingfisher, guineafowl, green junglefowl, blue-grey tanager, malachite sunbird, great sapphirewing, ruby-topaz hummingbird, fiery topaz, crimson topaz, rainbow bearded thornbill, violet sabrewing, long-tailed sylph, red-tailed comet, variable sunbird, helmeted woodpecker, red-crested cardinal, blue-winged mountain tanager, cinnamon hummingbird, antillean crested hummingbird, violet capped woodnymph, sparkling violetear, blue pitta, mandarin duck

#🌌written in the stars ; asks🌌

[echoes-of-kemet]

Do yu know what other animals were in ancient egypt? I want my oc to have a unique animal and you seem to know a fair amount

I am a well of ridiculous, hyperspecific, only interesting to some trivia lmao.

I would encourage you not to limit yourself to an entirely unique beast- many deities share sacred animals and are still strong individuals. My mind immediately goes to the huge number of feline deities- lions and lionesses in particular- for an example. Additionally, it's nigh impossible for me (with no academic anthropology/egyptology/historic zoology knowledge) to say for certain that particular animals were present in Kemet when they have no documented deities, mummies, or written mentions. I've had to guess for some, deduce by their present day habitats and more or less "timeline" of their species.

It's also important to keep in mind Kemet had contact with other civilizations in other habitats, meaning they were aware of animals not necessarily native to the area. A perfect example is the Hamadryas baboon- they were Nubian animals, but were sacred to both Thoth and Babi, depicted in art, and many mummies of the species have been recovered. A more surprising example is the Syrian brown bear, which was a rare exotic spectacle for the royal elite. There's also the trouble of many species now being extant from the area, meaning they were there but the local population is now extinct- the African sacred ibis is the example my mind comes to first, the waterfowl no longer present along the Nile.

Coincidentally, I've been compiling a list of animals for my own reference to supply a beast or two for the deities that don't have one in tradition. 

Birds

Abdim's Stork

African Darter

African Dwarf Kingfisher

African Grass Owl

African Open-billed Stork

African Pied Wagtail

African Sacred Ibis

Asian Green Bee-Eater

Barbary Falcon

Barbary Partridge

Barn Owl

Barn Swallow

Bearded Vulture

Bennu Heron (likely not an actual animal, the Bennu bird inspired by the Goliath Heron- but felt like including it anyhow)

Black Kite

Black Stork

Black-throated Loon

Black-winged Kite

Brown-necked Raven

Carrion Crow

Cattle Egret

Chukar Partridge

Common Buzzard

Common Cormorant

Common Crane

Common Greenshank

Common House Martin

Common Kestrel

Common Kingfisher

Common Pochard

Common Quail

Common Raven

Common Redshank

Common Redstart

Common Sandpiper

Common Spoonbill

Common Teal

Crab Plover

Crested Plover

Dalmatian Pelican

Demoiselle Crane

Eagle (I'm sure there were some, but I can't find any definitive evidence of species in the ancient Kemetic culture- I would take a guess that the Golden Eage was an infrequent visitor)

Egyptian Plover

Egyptian Vulture

European Roller (considered a pest)

European Turtle-dove

Eurasian Coot

Eurasian Crag Martin

Eurasian Teal

Eurasian Wigeon

Fan-tailed Raven

Ferruginous Duck

Gadwall

Garganey

Glossy Ibis

Golden Oriole

Goliath Heron

Great Bittern

Great Bustard

Great Cormorant

Great Egret

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Great White Pelican

Greater Flamingo (possibly not native)

Green Sandpiper

Grey Heron

Griffon Vulture

Helmeted Guineafowl (not native)

Hermit Ibis

Hobby Falcon

Honey Buzzard

Hooded Crow

Hoopoe

Houbara Bustard

House Crow

House Sparrow (pest, hieroglyph had negative connotation)

Kittliz's Plover

Lanner Falcon

Lappet-faced Vulture

Laughing Dove

Lesser Kestrel

Lesser Pied Kingfisher

Little Bittern

Little Bustard

Little Egret

Little Owl

Long-eared Owl

Long-legged Buzzard

Mallard

Marabou Stork

Marsh Sandpiper

Masked Shrike

Merlin

Mourning Wheatear

Northern Lapwing

Northern Pintail

Northern Shoveler

Ostrich

Pale Crag Martin

Peregrine Falcon

Pied Avocet

Pink-backed Pelican

Purple Gallinule

Purple Heron

Red Kite

Red-backed Shrike

Red-footed Falcon

Red-rumped Wheatear

Reed Cormorant

Ring-necked Dove

Rock Dove

Rook

Ruddy Shelduck

Saddle-bill Stork

Saker Falcon

Sandhill Crane

Sand Martin

Sand Partridge

Short-eared Owl

Spotted Redshank

Sooty Falcon

Squacco Heron

Striated Heron

Swan (not native)

Tawny Owl

Tufted Duck

Western Reef Heron

White-backed Night Heron

White-crowned Wheatear

White Stork

White Wagtail

Wood Sandpiper

Yellow-billed Stork

Mammals

Aardvark (possibly not native)

Aardwolf

Addax Antelope

African Clawless Otter

African Giant Shrew

African Green Monkey (not native)

African Grass Rat

African Leopard

African Striped Weasel

Arabian Oryx

Barbary Deer (not native)

Barbary Lion (now extinct)

Barbary Macaque (not native)

Black Rat

Common Patas Monkey (not native)

Black Rhinoceros

Blanford's Fox

Black Wildebeest

Bubal Hartebeest (now extinct)

Cairo Spiny Mouse

Cape Hare

Caracal

Cheetah

Common Beisa Oryx

Common Genet

Desert Hedgehog

Desert Long-eared Bat

Dorcas Gazelle

Desert Black Cobra

Egyptian Fruit Bat

Egyptian Jackal/African Wolf (originally misidentified, now the African Wolf)

Egyptian Mongoose

Egyptian Pipistrelle

Egyptian Red Fox

Egyptian Slit-faced Bat

Egyptian Tomb Bat

Egyptian Weasel

Egyptian Wild Ass 

Fennec Fox

Flower's Shrew

Four-toed Jerboa

Geoffroy's Horseshoe Bat

Gerenuk

Giraffe

Golden Spiny Mouse

Greater Egyptian Jerboa

Greater Mouse-tailed Bat

Greater Red Musk Shrew

Hamadryas Baboon (not native)

Hippopotamus

Honey Badger

House Mouse

Lesser Egyptian Jerboa

Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat

Long-eared Hedgehog

Long-nosed Shrew

North African/Bush Elephant (vilified and driven out by prehistoric Egyptians)

North African Crested Porcupine (not native)

Nubian Ibex (not native)

Olive Baboon (likely not native, sometimes called the Anubis Baboon)

Persian Fallow Deer (not native)

Rhim Gazelle

Rüppell's Fox

Sand Rat

Serval (likely not native, but Ra was depicted as one)

Scimitar Oryx

Soemmerring's Gazelle

Somali Dwarf Shrew

Spotted Hyena

Spotted-necked Otter

Striped Hyena

Syrian Brown Bear (not native)

Wild Boar

White Rhinoceros

Yellow Baboon (not native, species' epithet means 'dog-head' in Greek)

Vervet Monkey

Reptiles

African Chameleon

African Rock Python

Arabian Horned Viper

Desert Horned Viper

Desert Monitor Lizard

Egyptian Cobra

Egyptian Gecko

Egyptian Sand Boa

Egyptian Sand Racer

Egyptian Tortoise

Javelin Sand Boa

Insects/Arachnids/Etc.

Nile Crocodile

Nile Soft-shelled Turtle

Red Spitting Cobra

Saharan Sand Viper

Amphibians

African Common Toad

European Green Toad

Marsh Frog

Mascarene Grass Frog

Nile Delta Toad

Nile Valley Toad

Camel Spider

Banded Garden Spider

Brown Widow Spider

Carpenter Ant

Centipede

Click Beetle

Common Housefly (NOT considered a pest, actually revered as a protector)

Danaid Eggfly

Desert Ant

Desert Locust

Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

Dorippus Tiger Butterfly

Dragonfly

Flea

Fire Ant

Jewel Beetle

Gaudy Commodore Butterfly

Half-edged Wall Jumping Spider

Large Salmon Arab Butterfly

Maggot/Carrion Fly

Migratory Locust

Messor Ant

Millipede

Red-breasted Goose

Mosquito (pest)

Moths in the Saturniidae family

Palestine Yellow Scorpion

Pantropical Jumping Spider

Pharaoh Ant

Plain Tiger Butterfly

Praying Mantis

Scarab Beetle

Sinai Baton Blue Butterfly

Southern White Admiral Butterfly

Scorpions in the Buthidae and Scorpionidae families

Water Scorpion

Fish, Mollusks, etc. (Keep in mind fish were taboo in Kemet)

Abju

African Catfish

African Tigerfish

Bayad Fish

Blacktip Shark

Blue-spotted Stingray

Bolti

Chromis

Cichlid

Cornish Jack

Eel

Flatfish

Gilt-head Bream

Great Barracuda

Leopard Shark

Lepidotus Fish

Loligo Squid

Lungfish

Moon Fish

Mullet

Nile Barb

Nile Bichir

Nile Carp

Nile Mormyrid

Nile Labeo

Nile Perch

Nile Puffer

Parrotfish

Reef Manta Ray

Reef Shark

Sandbar Shark

Sea Snake

Scorpionfish

Spiny Lobster

Sturgeon

Surgeonfish

Swordfish

Thornback Ray

Thresher Shark

Tiger Shark

Tilapia

Triggerfish

Unicorn Fish

Wrasse

Zebra Shark

Domestic Animals

Bean Goose

Brant Goose

Camel (not introduced until Middle/New Kingdom)

Cats (Mau breed)

Chickens (not introduced until New Kingdom era)

Cow/Bull

Dogs (Saluki, Greyhound, Basenji, and Pharaoh Hound breeds)

Donkey

Egyptian Goose

Greater White-fronted Goose

Greylag Goose

Honey Bees

Horse (not introduced until New Kingdom)

Pig

Ram

My sources, if you're interested, are the Wikipedia page for Egyptian wildlife, a few different diving sites about the Mediterranean and Red Sea, a couple books I own on Ancient Egypt that describe the geography of the periods, and this lovely reddit multi-post

Sheep

#asks #anonymous #ancient egypt #this took So Long to answer I sincerely hope it's helpful orz

[vintagewildlife]

Helmeted guineafowl By: Unknown photographer From: Dandy Gum Cards 1969

#helmeted guineafowl #guineafowl #galliform #bird #1969 #1960s #Dandy Gum Cards