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While birds are known to be of dinosaur lineage, this guy really shows his roots.
While I was recently photographing a California Quail in my area a couple weeks ago, I saw two Guinea Fowl - a bird which I had never seen before. I was in a rural, farming area, so they were surely owned by someone nearby, but their newness to my eyes caused me to follow them a bit and snap some pictures.
From Wiki:
"Sometimes called "pet speckled hen", or "original fowl" are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branch off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae and before the Odontophoridae. An Eocene fossil lineage, Telecrex, has been associated with guineafowl. Telecrex inhabited Mongolia, and may have given rise to the oldest of the true Phasianids such as Ithaginis and Crossoptilon, which evolved into high-altitude montane-adapted species with the rise of the Tibetan Plateau. While modern guineafowl species are endemic to Africa, the helmeted guineafowl has been introduced as a domesticated bird widely elsewhere."
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Edited on Jun 27, 2019 at 11:52 PM · View previous versions
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