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title: "Helmeted Guineafowl"
description: "Numida meleagris — Birds. The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/helmeted-guineafowl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Helmeted Guineafowl

> Numida meleagris — Birds. The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida.

- Scientific name: *Numida meleagris*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows), `farm` (Farm), `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 27212
- Wikidata: [Q251842](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251842)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1428](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1428)

## Names

- en: Helmeted Guineafowl
- de: Helmperlhuhn
- es: Gallina de Guinea
- fr: Pintade de Numidie
- nl: Helmparelhoen
- pt: Galinha-d'angola
- pl: Perlica zwyczajna

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (9111), US (2744), KE (1134), NA (989), TZ (942), AU (859), BW (500), BR (342), ZW (322), GB (265), ZM (246), UG (220)

## Summary

The helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guinea fowl bird 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, into the West Indies, North America, Colombia, Brazil, Australia and Europe.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmeted_guinea_fowl

## Photo

![Helmeted Guineafowl](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/helmeted-guineafowl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Henggang Cui · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180044479

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/helmeted-guineafowl?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).