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Podargidae

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The list of species of Podargidae family

The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to owlet-nightjars, swifts, and hummingbirds. Species in the group are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.

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The list of species of Podargidae family

The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to owlet-nightjars, swifts, and hummingbirds. Species in the group are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.

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Tawny Frogmouth

Podargus strigoides

Tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) are large, big-headed birds native to Australia that are often mistaken for an owl due to their nocturnal habits and similar coloring. They are sometimes incorrectly referred to as "mopoke", a common name for...

Sri Lanka frogmouth

Batrachostomus moniliger

The Sri Lanka frogmouth, Sri Lankan frogmouth or Ceylon frogmouth (Batrachostomus moniliger ) is a small frogmouth found in the Western Ghats of south India and Sri Lanka. Related to the nightjars, it is nocturnal and is found in forest habitats....

Large frogmouth

Batrachostomus auritus

The large frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus ) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. Logging of its habitat poses a risk to its...

Papuan frogmouth

Podargus papuensis

The Papuan frogmouth (Podargus papuensis ) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae.

Marbled frogmouth

Podargus ocellatus

The marbled frogmouth (Podargus ocellatus ) is a bird in the family Podargidae. The species was first described by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830. It is found in the Aru Islands, New Guinea and Queensland. Its natural...

Hodgson's frogmouth

Batrachostomus hodgsoni

Hodgson's frogmouth (Batrachostomus hodgsoni ) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.The common name...

Philippine frogmouth

Batrachostomus septimus

The Philippine frogmouth (Batrachostomus septimus ) is a nocturnal bird that can be found throughout the Philippine archipelago. It is common in lowland forests and maturing second growth. There is little information about the bird. It feeds on...

Dulit frogmouth

Batrachostomus harterti

The Dulit frogmouth (Batrachostomus harterti ) is a little-known species of bird in the frogmouth family, Podargidae, with a patchily recorded distribution in the mountain forests of northern and central Borneo to which it is endemic. The species is...

Gould's frogmouth

Batrachostomus stellatus

Gould's frogmouth (Batrachostomus stellatus ) is a nocturnal species of bird in the order Caprimulgiformes and the family Podargidae. It is one of the 12 species in the Batrachostomus genus. Its common name commemorates the English ornithologist and...

Javan frogmouth

Batrachostomus javensis

The Javan frogmouth (Batrachostomus javensis ), sometimes known as Horsfield's frogmouth, is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Blyth's and Palawan frogmouths. Found in Southeast Asia,...

Solomons frogmouth

Rigidipenna inexpectata

The Solomons frogmouth (Rigidipenna inexpectata ), also known as the Cinnamon frogmouth or Solomon Islands frogmouth, is a bird in the frogmouth family. It was first described in 1901, but not recognized as a distinct species until 2007. The...

Blyth's frogmouth

Batrachostomus affinis

Blyth's frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis ) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae.It lives in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is...

Sunda frogmouth

Batrachostomus cornutus

The Sunda frogmouth (Batrachostomus cornutus ) is a species of bird, typically placed in the family Podargidae of the order Caprimulgiformes. Recent research suggests, however, that the old order Podargiformes should be re-established, wherein the...

Palawan frogmouth

Batrachostomus chaseni

The Palawan frogmouth (Batrachostomus chaseni ) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae.It is found on Palawan in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is sometimes considered conspecific with...

Sumatran frogmouth

Batrachostomus poliolophus

The Sumatran frogmouth (Batrachostomus poliolophus ), also known as the short-tailed frogmouth and the pale-faced frogmouth, is a nocturnal bird belonging to the family Podargidae. It is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

Bornean frogmouth

Batrachostomus mixtus

The Bornean frogmouth (Batrachostomus mixtus ) is bird species in the family Podargidae. Some taxonomists consider it to be a subspecies of the short-tailed frogmouth, but others consider it to be a distinct species. It is found in Indonesia and...