It is not every day you see three owls in a tree, wide awake in daylight. Well apparently that isn’t even the case in this great picture taken by Ron Schofield on his Colo Vale property.
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These feathered characters were thought to be owls but thay are in fact Tawny Frogmouth which are often mistaken for owls. Ron said the father or mother was sitting on a separate branch watching them.
The tawny frogmouth is a species of frogmouth native to and found throughout the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
They are big-headed, stocky birds often mistaken for owls due to their nocturnal habits and similar colouring. The tawny frogmouth is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "mopoke", a common name for the southern boobook, whose call is often confused with the tawny frogmouth's.
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