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Spring Migration Hot Spot

This Helmeted Guineafowl, Nurnida meleagris, was wandering around in the front lawn of the Beatty’s Guest Ranch and Orchard at the end of the Miller Canyon Road south of Sierra Vista, AZ. It is an intentionally released exotic game bird. The difference in the size of its head and the rest of its body is dramatic. Up close it has vulture-like ugliness with a small brown beat up helmet.

Hemeted Guineafowl

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