This is absolutely hideous. It looks all rough and eew Source
I can't believe I've never heard of this bird. Behold the Sri Lanka Frogmouth. This is a nocturnal bird, most closely related to nightjars. As you might guess, they are found in Sri Lanka, but also in Southwest India.
As parents they work in shifts to incubate their single egg. The female takes the graveyard shift, while the male takes the day.
They're insectivorous, and their flight is described as weak and erratic, but they nevertheless manage to catch their share of crunchy morsels.
I'm going to have to spend the next few minutes staring at this bird to try to decide if it looks more like a ferbie, a muppet, or the illicit offspring of a frog and Skeksi.
-- Edited by Dj Quiva on Thursday 4th of June 2009 03:59:30 AM