Wolf Run Studio - Birds
Bill Harrah
Wolf Run Studio
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Clifton VA 20124

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  AMERICAN KESTREL     BALD EAGLE     BARN OWL     BARRED OWL     EASTERN SCREECH OWL     GREAT HORNED OWL     HARRIS' HAWK     OSPREY     PEREGRINE FALCON     RED-TAILED HAWK     SAW-WHET OWL     TAWNY FROGMOUTHS     CHICKADEE     CARDINAL     HUMMINGBIRD     TUFTED TITMOUSE     NUTHATCH     DOWNY WOODPECKER     RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER     CAROLINA WREN     GREAT EGRETS     PELICAN     CANADA GEESE     MUTE SWAN  
. . . BIRDS OF PREY (Click on an image to see the actual notecard size)
TAWNY FROGMOUTHS
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Also available in Notecard Assortment Pack #AST-511

Tawny frogmouths are a nocturnal insect-eating bird found in woodland areas throughout Australia and Tasmania. Their wide frog-like mouths enable them to capture creeping crawling things such as beetles, grasshoppers, spiders, centipedes, scorpions, and caterpillars. After dusk or before dawn, tawny frogmouths watch quietly from a convenient stump or branch until spying their quarry. Then they flutter down, striking their prey with the beak and simultaneously landing on the ground. Their flight is direct, but neither powerful nor agile.

Both sexes are similar in size, ranging in length from 9 to 21 inches.Their soft, silky ruddy brown and grayish plumage provides the perfect camouflage, making them extremely difficult to see when perched on branches.

Frogmouths build open cup-shaped nests in trees, usually in a tree fork, but sometimes on horizontal branches. Nests can be a platform of twigs or a pad of the bird’s own down, which are camouflaged with lichens, mosses and spider webs. Both sexes take turns incubating the eggs.

Text © 1993 Dianne Harrah, Drawing © 1993 Bill Harrah

Tawny Frogmouth pencil drawing

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Information Accuracy
The information for the written description of each bird has been carefully researched by the authors and is believed to be accurate. New scientific observations, however, could make some information out-of-date. If you are a professional ornithologist, and have new information that you are willing to share, please contact Dianne Harrah .