frogmouths 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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1. Although frogmouths are traditionally included in the order Caprimulgiformes, another study has cast doubt on their placement within that order, and they may be distinct enough to warrant an order of their own, Podargiformes, as Gregory Mathews proposed in 1918.