Grey-necked Rockfowl

The Grey-necked Rockfowl is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Grey-necked Rockfowl breeds in southern Cameroon, northern Nigeria and neighbouring areas of central Africa. It has grey upperparts and throat. The underparts are pale orange and the head is violet at the front, red at the back, and again there are black side patches. * Family: Picathartidae * White-necked Rockfowl, Picathartes gymnocephalus * Grey-necked Rockfowl, Picathartes oreas This article is from Wikipedia. More

The grey-necked rockfowl is called Cameroon picathartes or Picathartes oreas. It lives in West Africa, but not in the same region : we can find it in Gabon, in the Equatorial Guinea, extreme east of Nigeria and the south and south-west of Cameroon. This one is the bird we focus in this website. More

The Grey-necked Rockfowl breeds in southern Cameroon, northern Nigeria and neighbouring areas of central Africa. It has grey upperparts and throat. The underparts are pale orange and the head is violet at the front and red at the back, again with black side patches. More

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The Grey-necked Rockfowl of Cameroon - http://www.picatharte.com The African rain forest contains a lot of mysteries and among them the picathartes. These birds, which live close to the rocks and nest in caves of the primary rain forest, preserve well the secrecy of their everyday life and the observations seem contradictory... More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Picathartidae
Genus : Picathartes
Species : oreas
Authority : Reichenow, 1899