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Genus: Pternistis (23 species)


Red-billed Spurfowl (Pternistis adspersus) Range: AF: sw Angola, n Namibia and Botswana to sw Zambia, nw Zimbabwe and nc South Africa Namibia
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Red-necked Spurfowl (Pternistis afer) Range: AF: c, e, se Mara, Kenya
Photograph by Dave Curtis Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Ahanta Spurfowl (Pternistis ahantensis) Range: AF: Senegambia to sw Nigeria


Double-spurred Spurfowl (Pternistis bicalcaratus adamauae) Male Range: AF: w, c Bénoué National Park, Cameroon
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Mount Cameroon Spurfowl (Pternistis camerunensis) Endangered Range: AF: s Cameroon


Cape Spurfowl (Pternistis capensis) Range: AF: w, sw South Africa Western Cape, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Chestnut-naped Spurfowl (Pternistis castaneicollis) Range: AF: montane s to ne Ethiopia and nw Somalia Mega, Ethiopia
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Chestnut-naped Spurfowl (Pternistis castaneicollis) Range: AF: montane s to ne Ethiopia and nw Somalia Ethiopia
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Clapperton's Spurfowl (Pternistis clappertoni clappertoni) Range: AF: c, ne Kidepo National Park, Uganda
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Erckel's Spurfowl (Pternistis erckelii) Male Range: AF: ne Sudan, Eritrea to c Ethiopia Jemma Valley, Ethiopia
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Grey-striped Spurfowl (Pternistis griseostriatus) Range: AF: w Angola


Hartlaub's Spurfowl (Pternistis hartlaubi) Male Range: AF: sw Angola and c, n Namibia Namibia
Photograph by Ron Knight Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Harwood's Spurfowl (Pternistis harwoodi) Male Near Threatened Range: AF: montane c Ethiopia Jemma Valley, Ethiopia
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Hildebrandt's Spurfowl (Pternistis hildebrandti) Range: AF: e, se Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
Photograph by Peter R. Steward Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Hildebrandt's Spurfowl (Pternistis hildebrandti) Range: AF: e, se Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
Photograph by Peter R. Steward Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Heuglin's Spurfowl (Pternistis icterorhynchus) Range: AF: s Chad and sw Sudan to n DR Congo and w Uganda Murchinson Falls National Park, Uganda
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Jackson's Spurfowl (Pternistis jacksoni) Male Range: AF: w, c Kenya Castle Forest Lodge, Kenya
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Yellow-necked Spurfowl (Pternistis leucoscepus) Range: AF: Eritrea and e South Sudan to Somalia, Kenya and ne Tanzania Tsavo East National Park, Coast province, Kenya
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Natal Spurfowl (Pternistis natalensis) Range: AF: s Zambia and Zimbabwe to w Mozambique and ne South Africa Kruger National Park, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Handsome Spurfowl (Pternistis nobilis) Range: AF: e DR Congo, sw Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi Ruhija, Uganda
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Djibouti Spurfowl (Pternistis ochropectus) Critically Endangered Range: AF: montane Djibouti


Grey-breasted Spurfowl (Pternistis rufopictus) Range: AF: nw Tanzania Ndutu, Tanzania
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Scaly Spurfowl (Pternistis squamatus) Range: AF: se Nigeria to n, e DR Congo, Gabon and Congo Republic, e DR Congo to Uganda, s Kenya, Tanzania, n Malawi and c Ethiopia Aberdares, Kenya
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Swainson's Spurfowl (Pternistis swainsonii) Range: AF: se Angola, n Namibia and Zambia to e Botswana, n South Africa, Zimbabwe and s Mozambique Kruger National Park, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Swierstra's Spurfowl (Pternistis swierstrai) Endangered Range: AF: w Angola

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