Vulturine Guinea
The largest of all guineafowl, these long legged, bare headed, noisey fowl prefer the dry savannas and shrublands of forest edge. Their diet consists of seeds, shoots, fallen fruit and insects. Females nest on the ground, in low vegitation. Despite the open habitat, they tend to keep to cover, and roost in small groups at night to avoid preditors.
Acryllium vulturinum
Tying with Vulturine Guinea
The lanceolate neck and breast feathers make great wings on streamers and steelhead flies.
The body feathers have a purple background with white spots surrounded by black as the body feather pattern. These feathers make stunning whole feather wing salmon flies.
The cobalt blue flank feathers are excellent for throats, body hackling and collars on salmon and steelhead flies. Crafters will find so many uses for this bird such as dream catchers and millinery adornments.
- feathers
- full skins
- fly patterns
- links to other exotics
Body Feathers
Unlike other species of guineas, there is quite a variety of color patterns on this bird. The spotted feathers on the lower left in the picture are from the rump and are darker than those on the upper back, the pair on the lower right.
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Wing Quills
Three pair of wing quills have a beautiful violet border on the outer edge of the feather. The rest are a dark blue-grey with fine white lines.
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Feather Assortment
I'm putting together an assortment of feathers from this bird that will include various sizes of paired body feathers and wing quills. Should have it up soon.
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Full Skin
The color of this bird is perfect, it is in good feather, no pin feathers, and other than slight damage to a few wing feathers, this bird is exceptional.
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