Species Information

                                                                                           

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203.  Helmeted Guineafowl
(Helmeted guineafowl )   (Numida meleagris coronatus)
Siswati: imphangela  
Common breeding resident in the middleveld, lowveld and Lubombos.

Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

Malolotja Information:
Uncommon resident of grassland with scattered bush.
Highveld grassland
Rocky hillsides with scattered trees

Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.

Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.