birdboybowley
Well-known member.....apparently so ;)
It's a shame that bloke who went looking for them never returned.....'coz that thread was the funniest thing I've ever read on here! Delusional was an understatement!!
It's a shame that bloke who went looking for them never returned.....
Proof, surely, of their man-eating existence.
PS - Why isn't the subject bird just a Whip-poor-will?
According to my Mexican field guide, potoos are not found near Monterrey. A potoo, a bird of the tropical lowlands, would be quite a find in the northern zone of Monterrey (mentioned as the site of the filming at the beginning of the video), which is in the foothills (at about 537 m/1760 ft altitude) of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains not too far from the US-Mexico border. The bird strikes me as too dark to be a potoo.
i would appreciate a serious answer and not all this cynical crap. If you experts can give a serious answer it would help out a lot. Now i did get one answer and a link but the beak of the animal is all wrong. the feathers seem in the right area but overall its still incorrect. If you noticed the width of the mouth then you can tell that its a different bird unless of course its a baby bird, then again if it is a baby bird its freaking HUGE. I mean look at the mouth when it opens. it looks like a turtle
i would appreciate a serious answer and not all this cynical crap. If you experts can give a serious answer it would help out a lot.
furstreak said:i would appreciate a serious answer and not all this cynical crap. If you experts can give a serious answer it would help out a lot. Now i did get one answer and a link but the beak of the animal is all wrong. the feathers seem in the right area but overall its still incorrect. If you noticed the width of the mouth then you can tell that its a different bird unless of course its a baby bird, then again if it is a baby bird its freaking HUGE. I mean look at the mouth when it opens. it looks like a turtle
I personally don't think there's any need for apologies. Pretty much everyone already said it was a type of caprimulgid. There's really no mystery about that being what it is. The rest of the posts were quite plainly jokes because the bird is quite plainly a caprimulgid. And as several people pointed out, the quality of the video is not adequate for a specific identity.Microtus said:I apologize for my non-serious posts in this thread.
I personally don't think there's any need for apologies. Pretty much everyone already said it was a type of caprimulgid. There's really no mystery about that being what it is. The rest of the posts were quite plainly jokes because the bird is quite plainly a caprimulgid. And as several people pointed out, the quality of the video is not adequate for a specific identity.
potoo was a perfectly legitimate suggestion to make I think. A couple of people have noted how in the video it does in fact look very potoo-like when in the hand, which I think is down to the way it is being held, but as you say on a second viewing (especially the way it sits when placed in the carry-box) it is clearly a nightjar.ovenbird43 said:I wasn't joking when I suggested potoo- but I was mistaken. Checking the location and watching the video again, there is no doubt in my mind now that it is a nightjar.