frogmouth in English
noun
1
a nocturnal bird resembling a nightjar, occurring in Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths , and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
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2. Three subspecies of the tawny frogmouth are currently recognised: P. s. phalaenoides is found throughout Northern Australia southwards to the Great Sandy Desert, Barkly Tableland, and the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.
3. DNA-DNA hybridisation studies have suggested that the two frogmouth groups may not be as closely related as previously thought, and that the Asian species may be separable as a new family, the Batrachostomidae.