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Vulturine Guineafowl

Acryllium vulturinum(Hardwicke, T, 1834)

English (US) Vulturine Guineafowl

The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Numididae (Guineafowl) in the order Galliformes.

Range: arid acacia scrub of southern Ethiopia and Somalia to northeastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Acryllium vulturinum
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Vulturine Guineafowl
Described by
(Hardwicke, T, 1834)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Numida vulturina
Described by
(Hardwicke, T, 1834)
Type locality
West Africa, error = Tsavo, Kenya Colony, proposed by Friedmann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 153, 1930, p. 136.
Original description
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.2, no.18 p.52

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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