Agelastes meleagrides
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The white-breasted guinea fowl (Agelastes meleagrides) is a medium-sized, up to 45 cm long, terrestrial bird of the guinea fowl family. It has a black plumage with a small, bare, red head, white breast, long, black tail, greenish-brown bill, and greyish feet. The sexes are similar, although the female is slightly smaller than the male.
The white-breasted guinea fowl is distributed in subtropical West African forests of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Although preferring a more dry climate, the species prioritizes forest coverage causing the distribution of the species to have a much broader distribution.
Its diet consists mainly of seeds, berries, termites, and small animals. Due to ongoing habitat loss and hunting in some areas, the white-breasted guinea fowl is rated as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Freeman, B., Jiménez-García, D., Barca, B., & Grainger, M. (2019)
WALTERT, M., SEIFERT, C., RADL, G., & HOPPE-DOMINIK, B. (2010) BirdLife Species Factsheet (archived) Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taï National Park | 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-breasted Guineafowl sighting in Taï National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 37th most-seen of the 74 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-breasted Guineafowl sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Taï National Park, in our data
Taï National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-breasted Guineafowl sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-breasted Guineafowl is recorded against all the birds logged in Taï National Park (11 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
