frogmouth
IPA: frˈɑgmaʊθ
noun
- Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous birds, of the family Podargidae, native to Australia and southern Asia
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Examples of "frogmouth" in Sentences
- Frogmouths are not raptorial birds.
- The first group also found a tawny frogmouth.
- Tawny Frogmouth pairs stay together until one of the pair dies.
- The seldom seen Marbled Frogmouth is known to live in this reserve.
- The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to the nightjars.
- The frogmouths are a group of tropical nocturnal birds related to the nightjars.
- 'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth.'
- Theirs is the first frogmouth from these islands to be caught by scientists in more than 100 years.
- A new genus of birds (in the frogmouth family, the Podargidae) has been discovered in the Solomon Islands.
- Now, the quotation -- 'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth' -- is interesting, but enigmatic.
- Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
- A combination of detailed morphological and genetic analyses reveal that this frogmouth formerly dismissed as just a race of an existing species actually cannot be placed confidently in any existing genus, and so the data demand naming a new one. '
- Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science.
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