Papuan Frogmouth - Cairns Botanical Gardens, Australia - July 2012
/Frogmouth is a family of birds that, like frogs, have large mouths compared to the size of their body. Also, they have large, horny, triangular, sharply hooked bills.
The Papuan Frogmouth is the largest of the 14 frogmouth species with an average length of 53 cm (21 in). They can be found in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia as well as New Guinea and nearby islands in Indonesia.
From Wikipedia. "The Papuan frogmouth is strictly nocturnal. It hunts for large insects on the ground from dusk. On occasion it will also take a small reptile, amphibian or bird as prey. It has been speculated that the Papuan frogmouth may secrete a substance in its mouth that attracts flies. According to a number of observers it is able to wait with its mouth open and flies enter to investigate the odor."
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