Blyth's Frogmouth

Blyth's frogmouth is a cryptically patterned nocturnal bird with brown or rufous-brown plumage that resembles dead leaves and bark. Its broad, slightly rounded bill is bordered by conspicuous bristles, while rounded wings and a relatively long rounded tail aid manoeuvring through dense vegetation. The sexes differ in colour, females generally showing the brighter rufous form. By day it rests motionless along a branch, relying on camouflage and an upright, broken-branch posture to avoid detection (Wikipedia, general species account).

It occurs from southeastern Myanmar through Thailand, Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia, inhabiting mature lowland evergreen forest and dense understorey, locally from swamp forest and mangroves to wooded hills. After dark it sallies from a perch or gleans trunks and foliage, taking beetles, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, termites and other invertebrates. Its territorial song is a descending series of wheezy notes, often delivered in the early evening or before dawn (Wikipedia, general species account, drawing on Cleere and Holyoak).