Plumed guinea fowl

The plumed guinea fowl (Guttera plumifera) is a member of the guinea fowl bird family. It is found in humid primary forest in Central Africa. It resembles some subspecies of the crested guinea fowl, but has a straighter (not curled) and higher crest, and a relatively long wattle on either side of the bill. The bare skin on the face and neck is entirely dull grey-blue in the western nominate subspecies, while there are a few orange patches among the grey-blue in the eastern subspecies schubotzi.

Plumed guinea fowl
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Numididae
Genus:	Guttera
Species:	G. plumifera
Binomial name
Guttera plumifera (Cassin, 1857)

Taxonomy

There are two recognized subspecies:

• G. p. plumifera (Cassin, 1857) - Cameroon plumed guinea fowl - southern Cameroon to Congo Basin, northern Gabon, and northern Angola
• G. p. schubotzi (Reichenow, 1912) - Schubotz's plumed guinea fowl - northern Zaire to East African Rift and forests west of Lake Tanganyika