Saturday, October 10, 2015

MARBLED FROGMOUTH

Photographed in Iron Range, Queensland October 2015
699          MARBLED FROGMOUTH              Podargus ocellatus

Australia         (541)

Also known as Plumed Frogmouth. Two separated races. Marmoratus: found in Monsoon forest, vine scrub, gallery forest on creeks, near eucalyptus, other woodlands; race plumiferus: pockets of closed subtropical rainforests up to c. 700 m. Range: marmoratus: Cape York (Q) s. on e. coast to McIlwaith Ra.; plumiferus: patchily from Many Peaks Ra.; s. of Gladstone (Q) to Lismore (NSW), inland to c. Kalpower (Q). Local, uncommon. Sedentary.


























Subspecies plumiferus, photographed Mount Glorious, August 2017



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