Tawny Frogmouth

Podargus strigoides

Binna Burra, Lamington NP, SE Qld IMG_2724 20190630 - strigoides

Notes: Bulky. Short tail; eye yellow to orange-yellow; pale eyebrow. Nominate ssp strigoides
male: larger, darker, always greyer, bolder markings, longer bill; female: grey or rufous morphs.
Ssp phalaenoides smaller, pale & delicately marked; rufous-morph female commoner than in
other ssps. Ssp brachypterus medium-sized, tends to look rather plainer & greyer; no rufous-
morph female known. Sedentary. Often seen as pairs by day, singly at night.

Range from Morcombe^©

Kerang Wetlands, N VIC IMG_2613 20170319 - strigoides Elsternwick Park, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_0455++ 20210820++20211024 - strigoides male, female; male on nest w. chick
developing to fledgling. Glenrowan Caravan Park, N Vic IMG_5714 20211109 - strigoides adult and juvenile. Black Rock, S Vic IMG_2615 20180105 - strigoides Braeside Park, S Vic IMG_2585-2538 20180104 - strigoides Forest Den NP, CW Qld IMG_9991 20161009 brachypterus - plainer, always grey. Forest Den NP, CW Qld IMG_9987 20161009 brachypterus Broome, FNW WA IMG_2609 20120701 - phalaenoides smaller, pale, delicately marked. Ringers Rest, Mareeba, FN Qld IMG_4384 20190830 - phalaenoides Binna Burra, Lamington NP, SE Qld MVI_2727 20190630 - strigoides Elsternwick Park, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_1652+3285 20210928 - strigoides male on nest w. new chick; 4 months later male w. nestling about to fledge 20211024. Glenrowan Caravan Park, N Vic IMG_5708 20211109 - strigoides juvenile.

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