How to Use guinea fowl in a Sentence

guinea fowl

noun
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  • Since then, the farm has been home to dozens of goats, cows, guinea fowl and chickens.
    — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Later, in what felt like the middle of the night, some guinea fowl cackled.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Next—a supreme of pintade (guinea fowl) with black truffles from the Perigord.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • To add to the madcapness, the capitaine will release a chicken or guinea fowl for a game of catch-and-release.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • After all, Mou found that the necks of embryonic ducks, turkeys, quails and guinea fowl all have much higher levels of retinoic acid than the rest of the body.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2011
  • Forty vultures landed one by one on the water’s edge, scaring off families of warthogs and guinea fowl.
    — charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Madison Carson has broken 124 turkey, chicken and guinea fowl legs in her parents’ garage in the name of science.
    — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Forget frozen turkeys or anything larger than a guinea fowl.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The menu changes regularly but can include seared pigeon, roasted guinea fowl and smoked sesame tofu.
    — Stuart Miller, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
  • Also not really Olympics related, but Bela cares for camels, peacocks, chickens, horses, and guinea fowl on his ranch.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 9 Aug. 2016
  • The company was founded in 1966 by a pair of duck-breeding brothers and their wives who grew the business by maintaining the genetics for niche kinds of meat, such as ducks, rabbits, guinea fowl and pigeons.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Entrees include multiple game dishes like guinea fowl, venison and squab.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In one case, a Field paleontologist sent over a picture of a modern guinea fowl, saying the crest atop a pterosaur should look a little more like that than what the Blue Rhino team suggested, said Quady.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • These guinea fowls were born from Heidi’s childhood memories of real hens wandering about the garden in her family’s home.
    — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 26 July 2019
  • Avian influenza most commonly infects chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese and guinea fowl, and is often spread by wild ducks, geese and shorebirds.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Bird flu is carried by free-flying waterfowl, such as ducks, geese and shorebirds, and infects chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, domestic ducks, geese and guinea fowl.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Puffins have been observed using tools, and vulturine guinea fowls in Kenya have been found to display complex social behavior more typically found in mammals.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The beautiful, modern winery has an extensive outdoor patio overlooking the vineyard and natural farm, manned by two hard-working Great Pyrenees dogs who keep the deer away and by a flock of guinea fowl who gobble up the bugs.
    — Emily Spicer, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2018
  • Some 230 infected animals included chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and a peacock, a spokesperson for the Texas Animal Health Commission said.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Snippets of conversation sometimes get drowned out by an orchestra of farm animals — bleating goats, chattering guinea fowl and braying donkeys.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Badri-Spröwitz’s colleague Monica Daley realized the use of the mechanical sequence when experimenting with guinea fowl.
    — Luke Taylor, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Villagers use guinea fowl feathers to paint the designs, and the work is typically completed before the rainy season begins in May. Exterior design Walls are decorated with rich symbology.
    — Monica Serrano, National Geographic, 19 Jan. 2023

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