Monday, August 24, 2015

HELMETED GUINEAFOWL

Photographed at Samsonvale Cemetery where they have been present since 2007, and locals reports pockets of them in surrounding valleys. August 2015
645          HELMETED GUINEAFOWL            Numida meleagris

Australia        (488)

Introduced into Australia. There are a few surviving populations on islands of the Great Barrier Reef and around Brisbane. 6cm. Found in scrub or woodland. 60 cm.


Photographed near Walkamin, Queensland October 2015

















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