Western Tawny Frogmouth
Male, Eyes Closing, feeling threatened
Western Tawny Frogmouth
Male, Camouflaged
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| Western Tawny Frogmouth Male, Eyes Closing, feeling threatened | | Western Tawny Frogmouth Male, Camouflaged | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Nightbirds (Caprimulgiformes) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Frogmouth (Podargidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Western Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides ssp brachypterus)| This Photo: | 🔍Male, Eyes, just a slit🔎 | Thank you Sam Gordon (SamGordon), Marsden Allan (Marsden_Allan), Alan Melville & Mark Apgar for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Strange bird. Looks like an upright branch stump in a tree. Motley brown. To be clear, Marsden, Alan & Mark confirmed to species level. Sam only confirmed the female as P. s. ssp brachypterus, he said "While it seems brachypterus is indeed the dominant taxon throughout the Murray Mallee etc., males like this (lacking the extensive rufous throat) are harder to assign subspecies to." As such, the males here may be P. s. ssp. strigoides. Interestingly we've only found Males on Ellura so far, and it's been 12 years since we've seen one!
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