This article was originally published on Critter Science.

From its yellow head to its unusual hopping, the white-necked picathartes resembles something from a story book. These birds evolved from ancient Australian relatives around 44 million years ago. Now they can only be found in the forests of western Africa in Guinea, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. In the […]

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