Finally a showing not to be forgotten in the month of May 2015. This is my first lifer for the year. I finally got the elusive picture of the Large Frogmouth after 3 attempts to Taman Negara. I must thank Dr R for bringing his bird luck to me and Ah Lam. I was shooting at 1/8 speed f4 ISO1600 with mirror lock thru the back LCD screen of my ole 7D. The advantage is that you can zoom in 10x to focus. We have to take turn to shoot as the bird is about 30-35 ft high within a small pocket opening with foliage in between. A good torchlight helps.
The Large Frogmouth come in at a size of 16 inches (40cm) and it is huge - double the height of its other cousin Javan. The Male is warm rufous brownish chested with a distinct long covert tip ala creamy backward bushy eyebrow . The Female is in more duller colors and similar in size. All the Malaysian Froggies are Lowland Virgin forest dweller with some exception. By the looks of thing Frogmouth are residence of a locale site and do not move about. They may also be territorial in nature.
Next & last in the list is the Gould's Frogmouth..................a toughie. The last sighting I know was by Adrian who shot it in Bukit Tinggi.
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