#Nyctibius

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Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus), family Nyctibiidae, order Nyctibiiformes, Brazil

Potoos used to be in the same order as nightjars, but are now placed in their own order.

photograph by Gastaldon 

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Common Potoo by zwexpeditions

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus)

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[2626/11080] Common potoo - Nyctibius griseus

Order: Nyctibiiformes (potoos) Family: Nyctibiidae

Photo credit: Martjan Lammertink via Macaulay Library

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Common Potoo

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BOTD: Northern Potoo

Photo: Pedro Genaro Rodriguez

"Bizarre, big-headed, and bug-eyed nocturnal bird with yellow eyes and cryptically streaked plumage. Found in wooded and semiopen habitats in tropical lowlands, including mangroves. Roosts upright on branches, where it blends in and looks like a broken tree branch. At night in a flashlight beam, eyes reflect like brilliant amber coals (nightjar eyes are duller and owl eyes have a dull reflection and are rarely visible). Hunts from posts and prominent perches; sallies out for insects and often returns to the same perch."

- eBird

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great potoo (Nyctibius grandis) by Anderson Sandro

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common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) by Alexandre Toda Faitarone

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Great Potoo (Nyctibius grandis), family Nyctibiidae, order Nyctibiiformes, Pantanal, Brazil

Potoos used to be in the same order as nightjars, but are now placed in their own order.

photograph by Greg Lavaty

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Urutau - Common Potoo by silene andrade

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus)

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[248/10,977] Andean Potoo - Nyctibius maculosus

Order: Nyctibiiformes (potoos) Family: Nyctibiidae

Photo credit: Andres Vasquez Noboa via Macaulay Library

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Common Potoo

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Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) © Julian Londono

It hatches from black, brown, daytime, difficult, great, huge, large, mournful, nocturnal, open, overall, strange, such, woodland, and yellow eggs.

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