I don't normally bother with this sort of link, but have you ever seen anything cuter than these? Baby frogmouths! They almost don't look real, they're so sweet.
I really like the whole weird/cute thing they have going on there. The adults are also great, and even more wierd looking (the_reda has just supplied a great link below...)
We have them in our back yard! I've never seen the babies - they're so adorable! The adult birds are quite fierce to look at, but their call is lovely, a kind of mournful bee-boo hoot. They're also called Mopokes, I guess it's onomatopoeic.
They're hard to see in the wild, because they're super good at camouflage; they look just like a dead branch, until they open their yellow eyes and look at you ferociously. I've never seen the ones in the back-yard, but I can hear them at night.
Wow... that does sound amazingly cool. I can just imagine the ferocious stare.
My parents sometimes get tawny owls on their roof. I've heard them every summer since I was young, but I've only ever seen them three times (the owls I mean, not my parents!)
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I almost expect to see a label attached to their bottoms!
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I would love to see one in the wild!
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They're hard to see in the wild, because they're super good at camouflage; they look just like a dead branch, until they open their yellow eyes and look at you ferociously. I've never seen the ones in the back-yard, but I can hear them at night.
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My parents sometimes get tawny owls on their roof. I've heard them every summer since I was young, but I've only ever seen them three times (the owls I mean, not my parents!)
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