Twany Frogmouth
by Lilliana Mendez
Title
Twany Frogmouth
Artist
Lilliana Mendez
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
The tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) is a species of frogmouth native to Australia that is found throughout the Australian mainland and Tasmania. Tawny frogmouths are big-headed stocky birds often mistaken for owls due to their nocturnal habits and similar colouring. The tawny frogmouth is sometimes incorrectly referred to as “mopoke”, a common name for the southern boobook whose call is often confused for the tawny frogmouth's.
Tawny frogmouths are large, big-headed birds that are 34 – 53 cm long and can weigh up to 670 g.[7][5] They are stocky and compact with rounded wings and short legs. They have wide, heavy olive-grey to blackish bills that are hooked at the tip and topped with distinctive tufts of bristles.[8] Their eyes are large, yellow, and frontally placed, a trait shared by owls.[9][4]
Tawny frogmouths have three distinct colour morphs, grey being the most common in both sexes.[10] Males of this morph have silver-grey upperparts with black streaks and slightly paler underparts with white barring and brown to rufous mottling. Females of this morph are often darker with more rufous mottling.[5] Females of the subspecies strigoides have a chestnut morph and females of the subspecies phalaenoides have a rufous morph.[10] Leucistic or albinistic all-white aberrant plumage for this species has been documented.[1
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