Thanks Colin,
Its interesting the way the rufous morph seems to be confined to females.
I was working in Lakefield NP for probably about 9 months in total (although
disjunct over a couple of years) and I used to go spotlighting pretty
regularly, about every 2-3 nights, especially when I was camping.One bird
that I would see just about every night in woodland was the Papuan
Frogmouth. So I saw a lot of Papuans, all fairly similar, vague differences
in colour, at least in the light of a spotlight. But the rufous bird I saw
was very rufous and I've no doubt that it was a rufous morph.
I took a few photos of it if anyone is interested.
Cheers,
Mick Todd
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Subject: Red-phase Tawny Frogmouth
Hello Michael
According to HANZAB 4, all rufous morph Tawny Frogmouths are female.
There is also a chestnut morph (like the rufous but darker) which only
occurs in females.
Papuan and Marbled Frogmouths do not have recognised colour morphs, but
there is much variation in plumage in both species and females are more
rufous than males.
Regards,
Colin Scouler
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