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Low roosting frogmouths

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Subject: Low roosting frogmouths
From: Penny Brockman <>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:42:00 +1000
Dear all

When I was carrying out surveys on the Mallefowl transects at Gluepot S.Australia in February/March/April 2002, there was one transect where I regularly flushed Frogmouths roosting at the bases of mallee trees - they were amazingly well camouflaged amongst the tangle of grey/black leaves, bark and twigs and were quite tightly squeezed in under the brancing boles of the mallee trees. However carefully I approached the area where I knew they were likely to be, I never saw them until they flew. In the nearby areas, there were tall trees suitable for roosting high.

I also remember some years ago seeing a pair of Frogmouths roosting at head height on a paperbark in Ann Lindsay's garden that backs on Shortland Wetland Centre, near Newcastle, NSW.
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