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Defined: DKZ00021
English Helmeted Guineafowl
Scientific (Numida meleagris coronatus)
Order GALLIFORMES
Family (Latin) Numididae
Family (English) Guineafowl
Other name(s) Pintade commune, Tufted Guineafowl
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Antigua and Barbuda(I),Australia(I),Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde(I),Central African Republic, Chad,Colombia(I),Comoros(I),Congo,Cuba(I),Democratic Republic of Congo,Dominican Republic(I),Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia, Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Haiti(I),Ivory Coast,Jamaica(I),Kenya,Lesotho, Liberia,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mauritius(I),Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,New Zealand(I), Niger,Nigeria,Puerto Rico(I),Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe(I),Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa, South Sudan,Spain,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Uganda,United States - Hawaii,Yemen,Zambia, Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
sabyi nw Morocco
galeatus w Africa to s Chad and n Angola
meleagris e Chad to w Ethiopia, n Kenya, Uganda and n DR Congo
somaliensis ne Ethiopia and Somalia
reichenowi Kenya to c Tanzania
mitratus Tanzania to Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana
marungensis s DR Congo to w Angola and Zambia
papillosus Botswana and Namibia
coronatus e South Africa
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Helmperlhuhn
French Pintade de Numidie
Chinese 珠鸡
Japanese ホロホロチョウ
Russian Шлемоносная цесарка
Spanish Pintada común
Portuguese pintada-da-guiné
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)