Timaliidae

Picathartes gymnocephalus
White-necked Picathartes
Witnekkaalkopkraai (Dutch)

ZMA 27725
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Vulnerable Occurs in rain- and gallery forest of western Africa, where the distribution is patchy because it breeds only in colonies in damp shaded fissures in rock walls, cliffs, caves, and (occasionally) large fallen hollow trees within the forest. Its broken range reaches from Guinea to Côte d'Ivoire, and the total population is probably below 2500 pairs. Much of the decline is caused by degradation or disappearance of the forest, while also capturing for the bird trade and disturbance of the breeding colonies by man play a role, threats still continuing.

Items in the ZMA - 4 birds (of which 1 pullus):
ZMA 19414 Adult, unsexed, Jul-Aug 1966, 'Kameroun area', died 2 Mar 1967 in the Amsterdam Zoo, skin.

ZMA 26262 & 27725 Adult males, died 23 Aug 1972 & 1 Oct 1974 in the Amsterdam Zoo, skins (the latter with spread wing stored separately).

ZMA 55292 Pullus, died 2 Sep 1970 in the Amsterdam Zoo, entire bird on alcohol.

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