Point taken about the size and colouration Greg - always difficult to spot
relative size differences unless they are both sitting side by side. It was
pretty damn cold up there last night (for Queensland) so it might have been
puffed up a bit which would account for the difference in build I 'perceived'.
All I can say is it just appeared chunkier than the usual Tawnies I see. Mind
you I have also seen huge variation in the size of Tawnies depending on their
posture as well as the location around Australia.
Yes, the lack of really visible dark streaking on the chest was definitely
noticeable and may have altered my perception of colour a bit as well, although
it did appear paler and generally less 'grey' compared with the Tawny's I am
used to. Maybe my batteries in my torch were charged a little better last
night providing more light than usual;-) It was located in the crook of a
tree so I couldn't get a look at the relative length of the tail, which I know
is one of the main diagnostics.
The eye colour was definitely orange/vermilion and not yellow - I know not
necessarily a reliable diagnostic, however, taking into account the rainforest
habitat and number of records for this species on this section of track I still
stand by my initial identification of it being a Marbled rather than Tawny
Frogmouth.
One other interesting thing I noticed was that when I used the BOCA playback of
the frogmouth calls later on I got immediate responses to the Marbled Frogmouth
race plumiferus section of the recording only. They remained completely silent
for the race marmoratus calls. I suppose it must be like hearing the
difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi accent to Marbled Frogmouths;-)
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