#1369 · 🐦 birds
Tawny Frogmouth
🇳🇱 Uilnachtzwaluw ·Podargus strigoides
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- 9. © James Bennett · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The tawny frogmouth ( Podargus strigoides ) is a species of frogmouth native to and found throughout the Australian mainland and Tasmania. Tawny frogmouths are big-headed, stocky birds often mistaken for owls due to their nocturnal habits and similar colouring. The tawny frogmouth is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "mopoke", a common name for the southern boobook, whose call is often confused with the tawny frogmouth's.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 30,083 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Latham in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Nederlands
- Uilnachtzwaluw
- scientific name
- Podargus strigoides
- class
- Aves
- order
- Podargiformes
- family
- Podargidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 30,083
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by John Latham
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 19721, Wikidata Q788512, GBIF 2497109, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.