Notes on the diet of helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris on deciduous fruit farms in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

摘要: The crop contents of 24 helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris were collected from six deciduous fruit farms in the Elgin District, Western Cape Province, South Africa, February 1994 to January 1995. seasonal pattern food types eaten and mean volume 19.7 ml are similar those recorded for elsewhere, natural habitats. Of crops collected, 13 contained invertebrates. Seed bugs (Family: Lygaeidae), tenebrionid larvae Tenebrionidae) grasshoppers Acrididae) common during autumn, while weevils Curculionidae), nitidulids Nitidulidae) noctuid Noctuidae) commonest summer. presence fruits diet, namely apples grapes, late summer early autumn winter, respectively, is concern. However, possibility these fruits, particularly apples, being fallen not refuted.