Bare-headed rockfowl  (Picathartes gymnocephalus)

Species information

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Glossary

  • Inbreeding depression: The decreased vigour in terms of growth, survival or fertility that follows one or more generations of interbreeding between closely related individuals.
  • Invertebrates: animals with no backbone.
  • Primary forest: Forest that has remained undisturbed for a long time and has reached a mature condition.
  • Secondary forest: Regenerating forest that has not yet reached the mature state of primary forest.
  • Subspecies: A population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.

References

  1. IUCN Red List (April, 2006)
    http://www.iucnredlist.org
  2. CITES (April, 2006)
    http://www.cites.org
  3. BirdLife International (April, 2006)
    http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=6263&m=0
  4. Marks, B.D., Weckstein, J.D., Johnson, K.P., Meyer, M.J., Braimah, J. and Oppong, J. (2004) Rediscovery of the white-necked picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus in Ghana. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist’s Club, 124(2): 151 - 153.
  5. CEPF Small Grant Final Project Completion Report (April, 2006)
    http://www.cepf.net/ImageCache/cepf/content/pdfs/final_2eghana_2ewildlife_2epdf/v1/final.ghana.wildlife.pdf
  6. BirdLife International: News (April, 2008)
    http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2008/04/Picathartes_survey.html
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