Wolf Run Studio - Tawny Frogmouths Notecards

Bill Harrah
Wolf Run Studio
P.O. Box 444
Clifton VA 20124

Phone:
(703) 250-6711
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(703) 764-9204


AMERICAN KESTREL BALD EAGLE BARN OWL BARRED OWL EASTERN SCREECH OWL GREAT HORNED OWL HARRIS' HAWK OSPREY PEREGRINE FALCON RED-TAILED HAWK SAW-WHET OWL TAWNY FROGMOUTHS CHICKADEE CARDINAL HUMMINGBIRD TUFTED TITMOUSE NUTHATCH DOWNY WOODPECKER RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER CAROLINA WREN GREAT EGRETS PELICAN CANADA GEESE MUTE SWAN

. . . BIRDS OF PREY (Click on an image to see the actual notecard size)

TAWNY FROGMOUTHS #TFR-400 Notecards Only Also available in Notecard Assortment Pack #AST-511 Tawny frogmouths are a nocturnal insect-eating bird found in woodland areas throughout Australia and Tasmania. Their wide frog-like mouths enable them to capture creeping crawling things such as beetles, grasshoppers, spiders, centipedes, scorpions, and caterpillars. After dusk or before dawn, tawny frogmouths watch quietly from a convenient stump or branch until spying their quarry. Then they flutter down, striking their prey with the beak and simultaneously landing on the ground. Their flight is direct, but neither powerful nor agile. Both sexes are similar in size, ranging in length from 9 to 21 inches.Their soft, silky ruddy brown and grayish plumage provides the perfect camouflage, making them extremely difficult to see when perched on branches. Frogmouths build open cup-shaped nests in trees, usually in a tree fork, but sometimes on horizontal branches. Nests can be a platform of twigs or a pad of the bird’s own down, which are camouflaged with lichens, mosses and spider webs. Both sexes take turns incubating the eggs. Text © 1993 Dianne Harrah, Drawing © 1993 Bill Harrah


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