SpiritWriter Posted January 27, 2014 #1 Share Posted January 27, 2014 so you guys may have seen this bird already, but I'm sure it's new for somebody. I know I've never seen it before today. Ha ha ha, it looks so fake but it's real. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiritWriter Posted January 27, 2014 Author #2 Share Posted January 27, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 27, 2014 #3 Share Posted January 27, 2014 If I came up on THAT in a walk through the woods.... and I was armed.... it would be Katie bar the door for one of us! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted January 27, 2014 #4 Share Posted January 27, 2014 ...it's glorious. I love it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted January 28, 2014 #5 Share Posted January 28, 2014 The cosmos has a sense of humor, is all I can say. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 28, 2014 #6 Share Posted January 28, 2014 ...it's glorious. I love it. The EYES would scare the crap out of me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted January 28, 2014 #7 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I think it's adorable, lol. Looks like it belongs on Sesame Street or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted January 28, 2014 #8 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Can you see the family resemblance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted January 28, 2014 #9 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Looks like a Tawny-Frog Mouth Owl to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted January 28, 2014 #10 Share Posted January 28, 2014 They're related, Sir Hat. These are like South American frogmouths, which are found in Asia/Australia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted January 28, 2014 #11 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Who needs Bigfoot to make nature interesting when you've got that! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyverna Posted January 28, 2014 #12 Share Posted January 28, 2014 What a cute and silly bird And it's not a cryptid; it's real, which is awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philt Posted January 29, 2014 #13 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Looks like a Tawny-Frog Mouth Owl to me. That it does. Saw one only last night looking at me from the bush outside my house. Tame ones you can pat like a dog. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrittyBeest Posted February 3, 2014 #14 Share Posted February 3, 2014 It's really quite cute. It looks kind of permanently surprised. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron_Lotus Posted February 3, 2014 #15 Share Posted February 3, 2014 it's both creepy and cute at the same time, i quite like it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted February 3, 2014 #16 Share Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) I take it the ones in the first pics are female, judging by the size of mouth? Edited February 3, 2014 by Eldorado 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldgemheart Posted March 8, 2014 #17 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Ahaha, it's so stupid and dorky I want twenty of them. It's so funny that things like this actually exist. It looks like a bird muppet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpnuts Posted March 8, 2014 #18 Share Posted March 8, 2014 If I was walking through the woods & came up on that crazy sum' a b**ch, I'd pull off my best ninja stance & karate chop him in the throat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldethyl Posted March 8, 2014 #19 Share Posted March 8, 2014 I take it the ones in the first pics are female, judging by the size of mouth? Oh ha. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglesareskykittens Posted March 9, 2014 #20 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Forget guard dogs, I'll scare buglers away with one of these. Best home security system ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldethyl Posted March 9, 2014 #21 Share Posted March 9, 2014 It is funky looking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urisk Posted March 15, 2014 #22 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Potoos are hilarious. Ya gotta love a potoo Can you see the family resemblance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur There surely was NOT a pterosaur that big!! I mean... there was a lecturer during my uni days that tried to convince us in several lectures that body-size in pterosaurs never got bigger than that of a large chicken... which was utter shash of ocurse but THAT big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skep B Posted March 15, 2014 #23 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) There surely was NOT a pterosaur that big!! I mean... there was a lecturer during my uni days that tried to convince us in several lectures that body-size in pterosaurs never got bigger than that of a large chicken... which was utter shash of ocurse but THAT big? Man....just think of the droppings you'd have to dodge from that Edited March 15, 2014 by Scheming B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 15, 2014 #24 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Potoos are hilarious. Ya gotta love a potoo There surely was NOT a pterosaur that big!! I mean... there was a lecturer during my uni days that tried to convince us in several lectures that body-size in pterosaurs never got bigger than that of a large chicken... which was utter shash of ocurse but THAT big? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus_northropi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereologist Posted March 15, 2014 #25 Share Posted March 15, 2014 A friend of mine saw a potoo in Honduras. The birds will sit quite still all day long and often sit on the end of a broken limb where they can hide as a part of the tree limb. It looks like a goatsucker (aka nightjar) to me with its color pattern and large mouth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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