common potoo

Nyctibius griseus (Gmelin, 1789), era um dos pssaros que mais esperava ver. Common Potoo

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus subsp. panamensis) Sexes similar. Photographed at Rancho Naturalista, Tayutic, Cartago Province, Costa Rica. Submontane cloud forest at ca. 914 m (3,000 ft) elevation.

I photographed this bird from a small boat at 9 PM using flash. The bird's distance required the use of a Better Beamer to extend the reach of the flash. The bird was typically positioned at the top of a dead tree in a forest gap, ready to sally forth after prey.

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Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus panamensis) Three subspecies have been described, one has been synonymized under subspecies panamensis leaving two recognized subspecies. Only subspecies panamensis is mapped for Panama. Photographed at night calling along Semaphore Hill Road below Canopy...

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus panamensis) Two subspecies have been recognized with only subspecies panamensis being mapped for Costa Rica. Photographed in Si Como No Resorts Wildlife Refuge in Quepos, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Lowland wet rainforest at about 26 m (85 ft) elevation...

Birds from Southwest Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Taken 24Oct2009 in Mindo-Nambillo Ecological Reserve at ~5000 ft asl in subtropical montane forest on west slope of the Andes in northern Ecuador.

This Common Potoo was seen day roosting at Sacha Lodge (Ecuador), here clearly hot and panting from the intense humid afternoon heat. See more like this at LOST IN BIRDING http://www.samwoodsbirding.blogspot.com

Common Potoo

Common Potoo

This was hard to spot! Have spent a month volunteering at Los Cedros reserve in Ecuador www.reservaloscedros.org , shortly setting up a bird gallery for the site, would really like to encourage people who can to visit this incredible place, as they are under threat from land-grabbers and mining...

Difficult to find these guys. They call them "stick-birds" here because they look like a stick.

Though we heard Potoos at night at Asa Wright (a melancholic mournful 'poor me one' ) we never got a good daytime view. I had hoped to get a classical shot of a bird on the end of a stump with an extended neck but it wasn't to be. This image was taken from a boat in the mangroves of Caroni...

Common Potoo sleeping mid day. Talk about a bird that is perfectly camouflaged right out in plain sight!

Quite an interesting bird. This is the first time I have seen one. The Potoo is a night bird and this fellow stayed put trying to sleep all day long and flew away at dusk.