Originally published at: See close-up video of this incredibly camouflaged "ghost bird" | Boing Boing
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ReBoing! (Well, nearly - similar but different footage, to be sure. But it was camouflaged, so you get a pass, I guess, @pesco)
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Wow that call can also be heard in florida, in the area of mar -a- largo
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It looked like it left behind an egg when it flew off? Surely that can’t be right though can it?
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Potoos are monogamous breeders and both parents share responsibilities for incubating the egg and raising the chick. The family does not construct a nest of any kind, instead laying the single egg on a depression in a branch or at the top of a rotten stump.
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Wow, i guess it CAN be right! Thanks for the link!
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Immediately tempted go get a pootoo egg to incubate at the Yayoi Kusama museum and see if it comes out with appropriate polka-dot camo.
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I think the david attenborough got some of those maybe…
Through a fascinating quirk of evolution they’re actually closely related to the domesticated horse.
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That’s a clever name!
I have slightly mixed feelings about this. It’s a very cool birb vid, but I hope the birb returns in time to continue the incubation period and isn’t too stressed out over the disruption.
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