'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth.'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Theirs is the first frogmouth from these islands to be caught by scientists in more than 100 years. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
A new genus of birds (in the frogmouth family, the Podargidae) has been discovered in the Solomon Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Now, the quotation -- 'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth' -- is interesting, but enigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. From Wordnik.com. [ZooBorns] Reference
A combination of detailed morphological and genetic analyses reveal that this frogmouth formerly dismissed as just a race of an existing species actually cannot be placed confidently in any existing genus, and so the data demand naming a new one. '. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Podargidae Dulit frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti. From Wordnik.com. [Borneo montane rain forests] Reference
(04 / 19 / 2007) University of Florida scientists have discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird in the Solomon Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Mongabay.com News] Reference
At night, a resident pair of Buffy fish owls patrols the resort and often calls for long periods of time, competing with the Brown hawk owl and Javan frogmouth. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This frogmouth from Solomons comes to mind. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Mountain serpent-eagle Spilornis kinabaluensis Phasianidae Red-breasted partridge Arborophila hyperythra Phasianidae Crimson-headed partridge Haematortyx sanguiniceps Podargidae Dulit frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti Trogonidae Whitehead's trogon Harpactes whiteheadi Capitonidae Mountain barbet Megalaima monticola Capitonidae Golden-naped barbet Megalaima pulcherrima Capitonidae Bornean barbet Megalaima eximia Eurylaimidae Whitehead's broadbill Calyptomena whiteheadi Pachycephalidae Bornean whistler Pachycephala hypoxantha Turdidae Everett's thrush Zoothera everetti Turdidae Fruit-hunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi Muscicapidae Eyebrowed jungle-flycatcher Rhinomyias gularis Zosteropidae Black-capped white-eye Zosterops atricapillus Zosteropidae Pygmy white-eye Oculocincta squamifrons Zosteropidae Mountain black-eye Chlorocharis emiliae Sylviidae Bornean stubtail Urosphena whiteheadi Sylviidae Friendly bush-warbler Bradypterus accentor Timaliidae Sunda laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus Tim. From Wordnik.com. [Kinabalu montane alpine meadows] Reference
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