While reworking old photos I found these shots of Red-necked Spurfowl taken during a photography workshop (Feb. 14-23, 2011) in Tanzania led by Ray Barlow in collaboration with Naseeb Mfinanga (deceased) and Nickson Kassim of Maasai Wanderings. Four of the five photos had never been processed.
The Red-necked Spurfowl has a distinctive bright red throat patch. They breed across the central belt of Africa and down the east coast to South Africa. Roosting in trees, they descend to the ground at dawn and being foraging for food among the leaf litter. Their diet consists mainly of grass shoots, seeds, roots, berries and a variety of insects and larvae. The grow to between 33-38 cm in height and weigh between 520 and 570 g. The plumage of the sexes is similar, but females are smaller and lack the spurs.