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Sri Lankan frogmouth

Batrachostomus moniliger

Description:

Male is brownish grey , female is rufous or chestnut brown

Habitat:

forest in the westernghats,south india

Notes:

spotted these birds with help of bird experts in the local area.....

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7 Comments

Michael Strydom
Michael Strydom 7 years ago

Very interesting looking bird :) Love the bill

Neil Ross
Neil Ross 7 years ago

Well there you go! I had no idea there was a frogmouth species in Sri Lanka and India. How amazing they are. I get tawny frogmouths around my place in Brisbane. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/212... I'm delighted to know they have beautiful cousins abroad :-)

SaswatMishra
SaswatMishra 7 years ago

Please consider adding this spotting to following mission -

http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2103...

Thanks in advance !

InêsVeloso
InêsVeloso 8 years ago

so awesome :D

The MnMs
The MnMs 8 years ago

Cute!

Guru MG
Guru MG 8 years ago

Thanks !!

JaniekevanDijk
JaniekevanDijk 8 years ago

Awesome spotting!

Guru MG
Spotted by
Guru MG

Kerala, India

Spotted on Oct 6, 2011
Submitted on Jan 28, 2016

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