RFI When do Frogmouths call?

[Syd Curtis <>]

Of passing curiosity value only.

My parents' house on Tamborine Mt (in from the Gold Coast) had a very wide
verandah.  For a year or more, (some decades ago), three frogmouths roosted
under the eaves. Initially two were smaller than the third - mother and two
immatures perhaps?

My mother, who had a particular fondness for native birds, would stand on
the verandah and softly imitate the frogmouth call.  Soon you could see the
breast of the large one move in and out, and gradually its call would become
audible.  Its eyes remained just slits, but the smaller ones usually opened
their eyes quite noticeably.

Syd

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