Papuan Frogmouth
英文名：Papuan Frogmouth（学名：Podargus papuensis），是雀形目蟆口鸱科的鸟类。50–60 厘米。体型最大的蛙口夜鹰：嘴呈球茎状；眼红色；尾长；翅比茶色蛙口夜鹰更深。雄鸟：上体呈黄褐色、棕色和灰色相间的大理石纹，其下具浅灰色和黑色横斑、黑色纵纹。注意乳白色眉纹，肩部具皮黄色横带；脸侧、喉、胸更灰，具白色块斑。雌鸟：更偏棕色；斑纹比雄鸟更均匀、更细密，块斑较少；嘴较小，尾较短。未成年鸟：色更褐、更深。习性似茶色蛙口夜鹰；生境、栖息地通常更为浓密。
Papuan Frogmouth
50-60 cm. Largest frogmouth: bill bulbous; eye red; tail long; wings darker than Tawny Frogmouth. Male: marbled tawny, rufous and grey above, with underlying pale grey and black barrings, black streaks. Note cream-white eyebrow, buff bar along shoulder; sides of face, throat, breast greyer, blotched whitish. Female: more rufous; more evenly, finely marked than male, with less blotching; bill smaller, tail shorter. Immature: browner, darker. Habits like Tawny Frogmouth; habitat, roosting places often denser.
- Voice
- resonant 'oo-oom' like Tawny but deeper, slower; weird ghostly laugh, 'hoo-hoo-hoo'.
- Habitat
- margins of rainforests, tracks, clearings, eucalypt woodlands, scrubs, watercourse vegetation, swamp, dune woodland, mangroves, suburban parks with trees; camping grounds.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Jan.
- Nest
- scanty, of sticks, on base of branch, heavy fork; low to high.
- Eggs
- 1-2; white, variable.
- Range & Status
- ne. Q, and islands: large, pale race rogersi: C. York, s. on Gulf coast to Staaten R., s. on e. coast to c. Cooktown; smaller, darker rainforest-dwelling race baileyi: s. to c. Mt Spec NP, near Townsville. Common in n., scarce, mostly coastal, s. of Cooktown. Sedentary. Also Torres Strait, PNG, Aru, other islands.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Podargus papuensis rogersi 2. Podargus papuensis baileyi
