Plumed Guineafowl (Guttera plumifera)

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

Plumed Guineafowl (Guttera plumifera) [XC531737]
by id from Ouesso, Sangha, Congo (Brazzaville) (alarm call)

Plumed Guineafowl (Guttera plumifera) [XC785771]
by Mathias D'haen from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Crested Guineafowl (Guttera pucherani). Subspecies intergrade in north-eastern Congo.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

plumifera (Cassin, 1857) - Southern Cameroon, northern Congo and central-northern and southern Central African Republic, south through northern and western Gabon to northern Angola (Cabinda).
schubotzi Reichenow, 1912 - Northern Zaire east to western Rift Valley, southern into forests west of L Tanganyika.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Plumed Guineafowl (Guttera plumifera) - 10 files

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