These weird yet cute birds definitely look like alien creatures

Have you ever seen the potoo birds? Their appearance makes people a little bit confused: they seem creepy, but you can't deny that they make faces.


These potoo birds usually feed on insects, but they can also eat small animals. They can see you move even with their eyes closed, due to a narrow opening at the bottom of their eyelids. Their squawk is totally terrifying. The common potoo is the loudest at night. Potoos are quite lazy birds. Besides, they do not mate as other birds normally do. Typically, potoos are totally monogamous: once they find their love, it's forever. They are good parents. Their most recognizable feature is their shape of mouths.

Potoos are not one species of birds, they are a group of related species in the family of 'Nyctibiidae'. They branch out into one of seven species, thus, on photos the may look vastly different depending upon the species.



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28 Comments
Joy Holbrook
They look and behave exactly like an Australian bird called the Tawny Frogmouth.
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Aug 27, 2019 5:18AM
Paulette Arnold
Paulette Arnold, I may be wrong.
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Jun 25, 2024 4:38PM
Paulette Arnold
Joy Holbrook, I am not sure that these photos are of a Pootoo bird. These look like the frogmouth bird that you indicated.
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Jun 25, 2024 4:36PM
Paulette Arnold
I didn't think the first photo was the same bird as the rest of them. Not even sure any of these is a Pootoo bird. I have seen other pictures as they were mentioned on the book "The Source " by James Mitchner.
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Jun 25, 2024 4:34PM
Paulette Arnold
Lorna Lake, there was some information in the beginning.
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Jun 25, 2024 4:31PM
Lorna Lake
Lovely photos but with no information whatever - just 'humorous' captions which are not! Yes, I can Google but so could whoever collected the photos.
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May 25, 2022 5:53PM
Jim Mascair
I think that I have heard of them called frog mouths.
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Feb 15, 2022 12:32PM
Donna S Dodd
Very interesting. Where can it be found?
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Nov 7, 2021 7:03PM
ninakamwene
Beautiful pics! I learned today since never heard of this owl like looking bird.
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Sep 16, 2020 12:18AM
Juniperbrenda
What interesting and cute birds!
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Oct 30, 2019 2:01AM
Jacqueline Tattam
carolgarabedian, they probably think the same about you!
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Oct 2, 2019 4:19PM
Don Racette
Jeanieus I love your name!
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Aug 28, 2019 10:28PM
Jeanieus
Amazing shows Gods sense of humor
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Aug 27, 2019 7:33PM
Jean Sizer
interesting to see
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Aug 27, 2019 6:15AM
Christine Machen
Brian Kearns, This region is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The combined population of Central America is estimated to be between 41,739,000 (2009 estimate)[2] and 42,688,190 (2012 estimate).[3]
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Aug 26, 2019 7:21AM

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