Guineafowl hunting

Guineafowl refers to several medium-sized game bird species native to Trans-Saharan Africa. Three of those species - the plumed, the black and the white-breasted guineafowl - are listed as vulnerable. Their numbers are on the decline and hunting, of course is not allowed. The vulturine guineafowl occurs in North-Eastern Africa. Hunting opportunities for this species exist in Ethiopia, northern Tanzania, and even Kenya (which banned big-game hunting, but bird hunting is still allowed. The crested guineafowl is divided into three subspecies: the Western, the Eastern, and the Southern. The latter two can be hunted in Northern Tanzania, and in parts of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. The most numerous and widespread subspecies is the helmeted guineafowl, found throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Crested and vulturine guineafowl are generally hunted as a trophy of opportunity. Helmeted guineafowl hunts can range from a multi-gun social affair to smaller hunting parties. The two most common ways of hunting guineafowl are driven hunts where beaters drive the birds towards multiple hunters waiting to ambush them as they fly overhead. Where the grass is long enough for the birds to conceal themselves, working and pointing dogs may be used for smaller walk-up and shoot hunting parties.

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