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A stack of immature Tawny Frogmouths – the one on the bottom doesn’t look pleased.

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Tawny Frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) are strange, superbly camouflaged birds that are found over most of Australia. Despite their appearance, they are not related to owls and have weak feet that are unsuitable for catching prey. They spend most of the day roosting, imitating the broken dead branch of a tree before waking at dusk to hunt for large insects and other invertebrates, frogs, small mammals and other prey that they catch in their wide beaks. A trio of Frogmouths (one male and two females) have been living and breeding at Herdsman Lake west of Perth in Western Australia for several years. Both females mate with the male, laying a clutch of one to three eggs, sometimes more. This year the trio raised three chicks. This short video shows a female Frogmouth (second from right) huddling with her large fledged chicks – one of whom is perched above the head of its sibling..

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