Schlegel's Francolin - BirdForum Opus

Campocolinus schlegelii

Peliperdix schlegelii

Identification

• 23 cm / 9 inches

• Male 250 gm / 9 ounces

• Female 220 gm / 7 ½ ounces

• Orangish or dusty yellow head

• Black bill with some yellow

• Yellow legs

• Male has single spur while female usually has none

• Juvenile looks somewhat like adult female

Distribution

Cameroon, Northern Central African Republic, Southern Chad, and extreme southwestern Sudan, and northwestern South Sudan

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].
Formerly placed in genus Francolinus.

Habitat

Open woodlands with significant grass cover

Behaviour

Diet

Plant material, larval stage of some insects

Breeding

Plant material lined hollow where around 6 cream-colored eggs are laid

Thought to be monogamous.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/CE6D7D2F]. Retrieved 20 November 2021
3. McGowan, P. J. K. and G. M. Kirwan (2021). Schlegel's Francolin (Campocolinus schlegelii), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.schfra2.01.1

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Schlegel's Francolin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Schlegel%27s_Francolin

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