Yellow-necked Spurfowl

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Yellow-necked Spurfowl
In the San Diego Zoo, California
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Subfamily: Perdicinae
Genus: Pternistis
Species: P. leucoscepus
Binomial name
Pternistis leucoscepus
(Gray, 1867)
Synonyms
  • Francolinus leucoscepus

The Yellow-necked Spurfowl or Yellow-necked Francolin (Pternistis leucoscepus) is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1893


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