Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Picathartidae > Picathartes > Picathartes gymnocephalusPicathartes gymnocephalus (White-necked Picathartes; White-necked Rockfowl)Synonyms: Corvus gymnocephalus The white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) is a medium-sized bird in the family Picathartidae, with a long neck and tail. Also known as the white-necked picathartes, this passerine is mainly found in rocky forested areas at higher altitudes in West Africa from Guinea to Ghana. Its distribution is patchy, with populations often being isolated from each other. The rockfowl typically chooses to live near streams and inselbergs. It has no recognized subspecies, though some believe that it forms a superspecies with the grey-necked rockfowl. The white-necked rockfowl has greyish-black upperparts and white underparts. Its unusually long, dark brown tail is used for balance, and its thighs are muscular. The head is nearly featherless, with the exposed skin being bright yellow except for |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 20.7766 EDGE Score: 4.46713 |
Adult Weight [1] | 196 grams | Birth Weight [1] | 15.2 grams | Female Weight [3] | 196 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 80 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [1] | 2 | Fledging [3] | 26 days | Incubation [4] | 20 days |
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Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Eastern Guinean forests |
Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Western Guinean lowland forests |
Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Diécké |
Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gola Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gueoule and Glo Mountain Forest Reserves |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kambui Hills Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kangari Hills Non-hunting Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kounounkan |
Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lamto Ecological Research Station |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lofa-Gola-Mano Complex |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Loma Mountains Non-hunting Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Massif du Ziama |
Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Monts Nimba |
Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nimba mountains |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Peko Mountain National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sangbe Mountain National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sapo National Park |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tai National Park and Nzo Faunal Reserve |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tingi Hills Non-hunting Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Western Area Peninsula Non-hunting Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Wologizi mountains |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Wonegizi mountains |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Zwedru |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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