The Tawny Frog Mouth
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2019
- Many Australians are familiar with the Tawny Frog Mouth, with these nocturnal birds being distributed almost across the entire continent of Australia.
Despite people’s familiarity with the Tawny Frog Mouth, a significant majority of people mistakenly believe these guys to be a species of owl!
There are several key difference with owls and Tawny Frog Mouths that are a result of them being in different families. Firstly, while owls hunt and subdue prey using powerful talons, the tawny Frog Mouth doesn’t use his feet to hunt at all, so they’ve never evolved the powerful feet and sharp claws we see on owls and other raptors, secondly tawny Frog mouths lack the sharp, hooked beams of owls, hawks and falcons and instead have a very wide mouth used for catching flying prey on the wing, lastly tawny Frog mouths don’t lay their eggs and tear their young in follow logs like owls do but farther construct a nest out of sticks and twigs in the fork of a tree
Despite these major differences with tawny Frog mouths and owls, both birds are faced with largely the same threats, a major one being the build of of poison in their bodies when human beings use poisonous baits to control rodents and insects.
Thanks to Animals Anonymous for having us and our awesome patrons who made the trip possible, if you’d like to see the other videos we filmed there ahead of time they will be available to watch at Patreon.com/wickedwildlife a week before going up on RUclips!
One of the most adorable birds I've ever seen, & one I never knew about as well!!!
I never saw one and didn't even know of their existence until I was about 20 yrs old.
I grew up in Brisbane Australia,and one day about the age of 20 I was taking a walk in the bush beside our house and came up beside a tree. I looked at the side of the tree where a dead branch was sticking out; I looked for a while at the branch then suddenly 2 eyes opened and the branch was looking back at me with an owl-like face.I got a huge surprise .
After a while the bird got upset and took flight.I later did some research and discovered it was a Tawny Frogmouth.
I had a mysterious low frequency noise haunting me at random hours of the night...turns out it was one these guys.
Love they seem like they are interested about facts about them. We love them and have afew around our 5 acres at night
You are so knowledgeable about this bird and I thank you for teaching me something new about another wonderful creature I just found out existed. 👍🏿👍🏿
Tawny Frog Mouth here must be the best listener on RUclips, what a star!
All the time the frogmouth perched on his hand thinking "bloody know it all human, tells EVERYONE about me.....I swear humans are the most nosey species out there."
What an entertaining host!
Hilton Jacobs it’s made easy when the animals are this interesting!
God , I love Australians & Frogmouths :P
thank you! love your videos! good info
Dana Reed thanks for watching :)
Stoked to hear you enjoy our videos
his head remains on the same horizontal plane at all times
3:29 The head turn and look of shocked disbelief when hearing about insecticides.☹!
Very cute.
I watch Kamp Kennan and he talks about how awesome your channel is so I wanted to check it out! I love it! Thanks man!
Don't, Jim Gday mate thanks for coming to have a look! Glad your enjoying it
Great bird ❤
It's one of them tawny frog boys oh gosh oh jeez wow what do I do I don't know they're so cute hecking cute!!!
Such a cute bird! Great video!
Saw one in the wild last week, got up to 1m away and he wasn't fussed. Was sitting low in a tree and blended in with the tree so well I almost missed him. His eyes gave him away.
i’ve never managed to see a tawny frogmouth outside of captivity, but i sure do hope to someday! great video dude!
G'day, G'day>
Well Nick I have a few of them up here, which is great , and I feel happy when I spot them in the trees.
The main trees I have here are the broad and narrow leaf Ironbark, many types of Blue Gum, , Bloodwood Trees, Bull oak, wattle etc>
I find I see the tawny's in the bloodwood trees most times.
But the sad part of this is, they often perch in the trees inside the dingo enclosures, unfortunately I find some dead ones on the ground.
So either my dingoes can fly at night and catch them, or they wait in ambush and catch them when they swoop down to catch a mouse .
Anyway, it bothers me.
But since I began my dingo sanctuary I have found more and more birds take up residence here.
I always enjoy your happy enthusiasm in your presentations.
We must meet up one day.
We have Night Jars here in Appalachia
First like thanks for sharing
They kinda looks like owl lol
Brook Hagen thanks for watching! Yeah it’s easy to see why they get confused for owls, especially since they are nocturnal, however owls are closer to eagles then they are to tawnys
First time I seen one and its been hanging in the front yard... in urban sydney
This guy sounds like steve
Great info! I spotted one tonight when doing my bird photography and on my last tree.. I spotted something and magnified via my camera lens to see a tawny Frogmouth sitting in the junction of a branch.
Tawny Frogmouth .. Amazing bird ...
Great bird, great information!
Nick to say the least I'm extremely proud of you mate videos look great
Thanks Emily Zillig ☺️
Slowly getting the hang of editing videos I think, I’d sooner wrangle taipans then work with computers but I’m making myself learn 😂
@@WickedWildlife yer I'd prefer taipan's over touch screens mate
Emily Zillig taipans over touch screens 😂 that oils be a slogan!
@@WickedWildlife oils be a slogan?
Emily Zillig haha could be a slogan I meant
Okay... I'm gonna need a video of a frogmouth bird panting and my life will be complete.
Even the nests of Tawnies seem to be built for camouflage. The few that I've come across look more like a loose collection of sticks caught in the fork of a branch than an actual nest.
Thank you for that. What a beautiful bird. Thanks for making the effort to educate God’s people about how to preserve this awesome creation.
May God bless your hearts and hands.
What an awesome little bird! I have wanted to see a Tawny Frogmouth in the wild for a very long time, they are just such fascinating animals and I love how well their camouflage has evolved. That little guy seems very well accustomed to people, they look like they do a very good job over at Animals Anonymous. Great work as always Nick!
- Harrison and Evan
Wow that’s Realy cool
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For six months I would hear at night an unusual low frequency sound. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what was responsible or where it was coming from . It had a dead set electrical/mechanical feel about it.
By a stroke of luck I came across a video of a Tawny Frognouuth making that call... Mystery solved.
We have a pair of resident tawny Frogmouths in our yard but this morning there is only one resting here. They always rest together during the day so I'm wondering where the other one is. Would anyone have any idea?
How much bigger do they get? There is what I think is one that perches in front of my house but is significantly bigger. Perhaps it's an owl?
This guy is almost fully grown but depending on where you live they can get almost twice as large
@@WickedWildlife ah nice, Im in central Victoria
@@5wisher5weet I’m actually hoping to get out to Bendigo area next time we have a warm weekend
They hide on stringybarks
Great info mate, I'm gonna include some of this info on my Instagram page @anylifephotography I'll give you a shoutout mate. Cheers