Large Frogmouth

 

Large frogmouth

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Conservation status

 

Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification edit

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Caprimulgiformes

Family:Podargidae

Genus:Batrachostomus

Species:B. auritus

Binomial name

Batrachostomus auritus

(Gray, 1829)

The large frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. Logging of its habitat poses a risk to its survival, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being "near-threatened".

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