[Posted by Chuck Almdale, submitted by Lillian Johnson]

The Picathartes family of birds has only two member species, both very elegantly plumaged, and is among the top three families of birds I dearly wanted to see and probably never will.

Forget gender wars! These bizarre birds have had equality sorted for some 44 million years – watch them in action
These ground-loving birds mate for life and work together to protect their young. The strange-looking Picathartes have lived in the Congo for 44 million years. Bald-headed birds that mate for life and breed in the rainy season, they build their nests out of mud on the underside of overhanging rocks on a cliff or cave roof to stay dry. This has also earned them the alternative name of rockfowls. The ground-loving birds have intriguing ways of working together and both male and female build their nest, incubate their eggs and feed their young.

Read in BBC Wildlife Magazine: https://apple.news/AUSu0J0nYRMClw_qBE7BfHw