Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Picathartidae > Picathartes > Picathartes oreasPicathartes oreas (Grey-necked Picathartes; Grey-necked Rockfowl)The grey-necked rockfowl (Picathartes oreas) is a medium-sized bird in the family Picathartidae with a long neck and tail. Also known as the grey-necked picathartes, this passerine is mainly found in rocky areas of close-canopied rainforest from south-west Nigeria through Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and south-west Gabon. It additionally lives on the island of Bioko. Its distribution is patchy, with populations often isolated from each other. The rockfowl typically chooses to live near streams and inselbergs in its forested habitat. It has no recognized subspecies, though some believe that it forms a superspecies with the white-necked rockfowl. The grey-necked rockfowl has grey upperparts, a light grey breast, and lemon-coloured underparts. Its unusually long tail is used for balance, and |
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] | 227 grams | Birth Weight [1] | 15.9 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Herbivore | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 20 % | Diet - Fish [2] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 60 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 10 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | | Clutch Size [1] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 22 days |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Afi River Forest Reserve |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bakossi mountains |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Banyang Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Boumba: Bek |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Campo Ma'an complex |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cross River National Park: Oban Division |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cross River National Park: Okwangwo Division |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dja Faunal Reserve |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ebok-Kabaken |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Gamba Protected Areas Complex |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Korup National Park |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lopé Faunal Reserve |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Luba Caldera Scientific Reserve |
Equatorial Guinea |
A1, A2 |
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Mbam Minkom: Kala |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mont Manengouba |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mont Nlonako |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Monte Alen National Park |
Equatorial Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kupe |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Rata and Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nsork Highlands National Park |
Equatorial Guinea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Yabassi |
Cameroon |
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 |
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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 ♦ 3del 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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