Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris Galliformes Africa, mainly south of the Sahara domesticated dry and open habitats with scattered shrubs and trees such as savanna or farmland plumage is gray-black spangled with white unfeathered head, decorated with a dull yellow or reddish bony knob, and red and blue patches of skin wings are short and rounded, tail short gregarious species flocks diet seeds and small invertebrates great runners