The Yellow-headed Picathartes (aka the White-necked Rockfowl, Picathartes gymnocephalus,) is an avian "Holy Grail.” To see them is birding Nirvana. The Audubon describes it as “a bizarre and rare species… the size of a chicken but slimmer, with a colorful, smooth-looking head and a beady black eye.”
The Yellow-headed Picathartes can be found in the tropical forests along the coast of West Africa-in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana-but it’s a rare opportunity for birders and ornithologists to see one in person. The Birds have lived for 44 Million Years, and DNA analysis has shown that Picathartidae and its closest relatives, southern Africa’s rockjumpers and southeast Asia’s rail-babbler, form a clade. The analysis suggests that the rockfowl split from the common ancestor of their clade 44 million years ago.
Tropical Birding sees this incredible bird on its tours to Ghana. See more information here: www.tropicalbirding.com/africa...
Негізгі бет Үй жануарлары мен аңдар Picathartes in Ghana: poetry in motion
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