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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

10,000 Birds

Here local hunters who had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. Gray-necked Picathartes foraging in leaf-litter on the forest floor in Korup National Park, Cameroon. They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea.