The vulturine guineafowl is the largest bird of the guineafowl family of birds.

These birds have a bright blue body with black and white streaks and small white dots on the back feathers. They have a "horny" helmet on top of their naked heads. The head region is bright with blue, red, and yellow. The eyes are red and the beak is short and black. There is a band of tiny brown feathers on the back of its head. The males and females look very similar and are difficult to distinguish. This bird's favored habitat is desert areas, savannahs, and grasslands, and a vulturine guineafowl breeds by laying eggs. Their average clutch size is between three and 18 eggs, with each hen laying around 40 eggs in one breeding season. The chicks of this wild bird hatch after 28 days of incubation, and when they are born, these chicks are well-formed and learn to fly within days.