frogmouth

IPA: frˈɑgmaʊθ

Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous birds, of the family Podargidae, native to Australia and southern Asia

Examples of "frogmouth" in Sentences

'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.