How to find these so discrete birds in a place as closed as the tropical rain forest? Armed with drawings, only aware of the fact that the bird attended the rock escarpments and built its nest there, I began the search of caves and of lost rocks in forest. The first goal was to photograph the animal. I thus visited many villages and, in vain during a year long, I presented the photograph. Then, miracle, in a village already visited, "someone" accept to show me rocks and, finally, I found the first two nests.. During the four following years, having gained the confidence of the villagers, I discovered 11 sites located in a rectangular tape of territory of 3,500 m out 500 m; two other sites which were 15 km farther from the previous zone, were indicated by the doctors J. L. Amiet et J. C. Decoux. These sites are among the for nesting sites of Kala where five nest are build (2007)

The abundance of the sites on such a restricted surface (1.75 km²) did not encourage the animal to adopt the colonial mode to ensure its reproduction and the nests are rather distant from each other. It is not the case for the population of picathartes observed in the Northeast of Gabon in particular by Doctor André Brosset. In this area, the birds nest in colony.

In any case, Gabonese or Cameroonian Picathartes were only found in the primary rain forest, nearby rock escarpments or in the mountains. In the hills of Yaounde, culminating at 1,295 m, they were discovered at altitudes from 850 to 1,200 m, generally at 1,000 m.

The roofs of the houses glow after the tropical rain. Rockfowl nests are not very far from here but these birds never came in such open fields .

The mountain where Rockfowls live and nest, this picture is taken from the plantation of the village seen above. But being back in Cameroon I note that in may 2007, all the trees are gone as well as the picathartes.