sri lanka frogmouth

The highlight of our stay in Backwoods Camp was seeing this amazing pair roosting together in the dense woodland. I think the right hand bird is the male

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A VERY difficult bird to spot in the Forest ! If you were to pull away from this shot and lower the light (High ISO) , it appears to be part of the foliage. The bird watches you with extremely slow head movements - quite striking.

A VERY difficult bird to spot in the Forest ! If you were to pull away from this shot and lower the light (High ISO) , it appears to be part of the foliage. The bird watches you with extremely slow head movements - quite striking.

Just outside Sanharaja Forest reserve Sri Lanka. A pair at a day roost, still very difficult to photograph...

Sri Lanka Frogmouths -bizarre & unworldy yet strangely cute!! The male is the rusty brown bird on the right. In Sri Lanka visitors must exit the National Parks by dusk. We were only 400m from the park gate when these birds began to call. Our tracker (all visitors to the National Parks must...

Taken at Backwoods Camp where a male and female were perched together in bamboo thicket. The image is of the female - undoubtedly one of the highlights of our stay at Backwoods and one made all the more memorable as our bungalow was called "Sri Lanka Frogmouth"! All the tents and...