Giant frog mouth
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Giant Frogmouth ( Batrachostomus auritus ) |
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The giant frog mouth ( Batrachostomus auritus ) is a nocturnal bird from the owl dovetail family .
features
The 40 cm long bird is colored red-brown on the top with white spots and yellow-brown bands. The throat is white and the belly is yellow-brown in color. The beak has bristles at the base of the beak and a huge frog-mouth-like opening.
Occurrence
The giant frog mouth lives in rain and secondary forests on Sumatra , Borneo and Malaysia .
behavior
During the day the bird rests in the trees. At night he hunts scorpions , millipedes , snails , reptiles , amphibians , small birds and rodents from a hide .
Reproduction
In an open nest of leaves and down in a fork of branches, up to three eggs are incubated by the male during the day and by the female at night.
literature
- Bryan Richard: Birds. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-4054-5506-3
Web links
- Illustration
- Videos, photos and sound recordings for Batrachostomus auritus in the Internet Bird Collection
- Batrachostomus auritus inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
