Bare-headed rockfowl  (Picathartes gymnocephalus)

Range

This species lives only in the Upper Guinean forests of West Africa including Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana, where it was rediscovered in 2003, having not been seen since the 1960s (3) (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Known as a rockfowl due to its affinity for a rocky environment, the bare-headed rockfowl prefers clearings within primary and secondary forests, but it is known to exist at less pristine sites, and is even seen close to towns and other human settlements (3).

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