Bird of the year - Tawny Frogmouth The Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides has today been voted as the bird of the year in an open poll ran...

Evidence of polygamy in the Tawny Frogmouth An adult male Tawny Frogmouth sits second from the right between five fledglings.  I recently fo...

Frogmouth chick rescue  Following on from the last post on how frogmouth fledglings are vulnerable to becoming grounded and dying in tall gr...

Tawny Frogmouth chicks: vulnerable when fledging Tawny Frogmouth chicks are now fledging in Canberra, and unfortunately there have been some...

  A New Spring By our calendar it is still winter in Canberra, but the wildlife have considered it spring for a couple of weeks now and they...

Last frogmouth chicks of the year  A very large Tawny Frogmouth chick lies in its nest next to its father. The nest was set on the end of a ...

  Wet and windy weather As of today, 15th, there has been 104 mm of rain in the Canberra area in November. 48 mm fell in the previous four d...

Frogmouth - The most Instagrammable bird  Here they are, images of what has recently been recognised as the most Instagrammable bird - the F...

Tawny Frogmouths are busy Many of the tawny frogmouth chicks I have been studying this year have fledged in the past two weeks, like these t...

Autumn Frogmouths It's now late autumn in Canberra and the Tawny Frogmouths are settling into their winter roosts. Each pair seems t...