The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.
Its head has bare yellow skin, its neck and belly are white, and its back is gray-black. The bare head is a useful identification mark.
It searches through leaf litter for insects and other food. Fieldwork at Bonkro recorded birds returning to mud nests beneath rock overhangs in the evening.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.