Ground Birds

Birds that spend most of their time walking on the ground, such as guineafowl, curassows and bustards.

3 entries

A black male great curassow with a curly crest and a yellow knob on its bill walking on the forest floor.

Great CurassowCrax rubraA vulnerable fruit-eating forest bird of Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.

A helmeted guineafowl with white-spotted gray feathers and a blue head walking on grass.

Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagrisA spotted African ground bird with a bony helmet on its head that eats insects and ticks and would rather run than fly.

A kori bustard with gray and brown feathers walking on sandy ground.

Kori BustardArdeotis koriOne of the world's heaviest flying birds, a ground-walking hunter of African grasslands that puffs up its neck to show off.