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Common Name

White Necked Rockfowl

Alternate Names

Yellow Headed Picathartes

Common Type

Picathartes

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Picathartidae

Genus

Picathartidae

Species

gymnocephalus

Conservation Status

Vulnerable

Location Photographed

White Necked Rockfowl Ghana,

Number of Sub-Species

0

Migratory or Resident

Resident

Preferred Habitat

Primary and mathre secondary forests around slopes covered in rocks near a flowing stream.

Distribution and Range

West Africa from Guinea to Ghana

Food

Generalized feeders taking insects, millipedes, centipedes, earthworms, gastropods and some frogs and lizards.

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Bird

White Necked Rockfowl

Yellow Headed Picathartes

Picathartes

Passeriformes

Picathartidae

Picathartidae

gymnocephalus

Vulnerable

White Necked Rockfowl Ghana,

0

Resident

Primary and mathre secondary forests around slopes covered in rocks near a flowing stream.

West Africa from Guinea to Ghana

Generalized feeders taking insects, millipedes, centipedes, earthworms, gastropods and some frogs and lizards.

Nests in colonies with as many as eight nests constructed out of mud formed into a deep cup built on rock surfaces, typically in caves