The helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida.
It is native to Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced, as a domesticated species, in the West Indies.
They can fly, but will use this option only when they are in danger or to get up to their roosts for the night.
Helmeted guinea fowl are omnivorous. In the wild, their plant diet includes grass seeds, grain, seedlings, leaves, bulbs, roots, fruit and flower heads. Sources of protein in their diet consist of snails, beetles, insect larvae, ticks, various invertebrates, frogs, small lizards and small mice.
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