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What (who) is tawny frogmouth - definition
SPECIES OF BIRD
Podargus strigoides; Tawny frog mouth; Freckled Frogmouth; Tawny-shouldered Frogmouth; Tawny Frogmouth; Tawny frogmouths
.jpg?width=200 "Camouflaged tawny frogmouths blend in with colour and texture of tree bark in Sydney.")
 2.jpg?width=200 "Pair of tawny frogmouths in Brisbane Botanical Gardens")
Oligia latruncula
SPECIES OF INSECT
Tawny marbled minor; Tawny Marbled Minor
Oligia latruncula, the tawny marbled minor, is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775.
tawny
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Tawny (disambiguation)
¦ adjective (tawnier, tawniest) of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour.
¦ noun tawny colour.
Derivatives
tawniness noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. tane, from tan 'tanbark'; related to tan1.
tawny
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Tawny (disambiguation)
a.
Fulvous, fulvid, yellowish-brown, dull yellow.
Wikipedia
Tawny frogmouth
The tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) is a species of frogmouth native to the Australian mainland and Tasmania and found throughout. It is a big-headed, stocky bird, often mistaken for an owl, due to its nocturnal habits and similar colouring, and sometimes, at least archaically, referred to as mopoke or mopawk, a name also used for the Australian boobook, the call of which is often confused with that of the tawny frogmouth.
Examples of use of tawny frogmouth
1. The tawny frogmouth is very much a family bird, as the picture suggests.
2. And when it comes to taking a picture of the Australian bird known as the tawny frogmouth it‘s almost impossible.
3. Scroll down for more ... Which makes this photo all the more remarkable – a mother tawny frogmouth, nestling behind her two youngsters, all staring straight into the camera like stuffed owls in the middle of the day.
4. We failed on only two counts÷ We never spotted a tawny frogmouth, and we came up empty–handed in trying to meet Helen‘s request for a fresh pineapple from their favorite roadside stand.
5. Their cry, when a baby bird loses its parents or fledglings leave home for the first time, is, she says, a "gut–wrenching whimper – the closest to crying in an animal that I have yet heard." In her new book, "Tawny Frogmouth", published by Australia‘s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Resarch Organisation (CSIRO) and expected to go on sale in the UK soon, she says the bird is a great help to humans.