Tawny frogmouth Tawny frogmouth The tawny frogmouth ("Podargus strigoides") is a species of frogmouth native to and found throughout the Australian mainland and Tasmania. Tawny frogmouths are big-headed, stocky birds often mistaken for owls due to their nocturnal habits and similar colouring. The tawny frogmouth is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "mopoke", a common name for the southern boobook, whose call is often confused with the tawny frogmouth's. The tawny frogmouth was first described in 1801 by English naturalist John Latham. Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin "strix" meaning "owl" and "oides" meaning "form". Tawny frogmouths belong to the frogmouth
Norfolk boobook km²) Mt Pitt section of the Norfolk Island National Park. Boobooks breed in tree hollows. Recorded clutch sizes from Norfolk Island range from one to three eggs, with two being usual. Boobooks feed on small vertebrates, especially birds and mammals, as well as invertebrates. The population of the Norfolk boobook declined with the clearance and modification of its forest habitat, especially the felling of large trees with suitable hollows for nesting in. There was also competition for nest hollows with feral honey bees and introduced crimson rosellas. By 1986 the population had been reduced to a single female bird, named