Burung malam (Nightbirds)
Great Potoo
Nyctibius grandis
- epik
- 43 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Greatest bark impersonator alive. Motionless on a snag by day, then out at night to engulf insects in its vast gape.
- Populasi
- 500,000–4,999,999 mature individuals, decreasing (habitat loss ~7% over three generations; overall decline estimated <10% over that period)
- Habitat
- Humid to semi-humid tropical and subtropical lowland and foothill forests (records from ~35 up to ~2,900 m, though typical range up to ~1,500 m), including forest edge, moist savanna, second-growth woodland, and plantations/farmland; roosts high in the canopy (12+ m) by day.
- Fakta menarik
- By day the Great Potoo perches bolt upright on a broken snag with its eyes nearly closed, using cryptic bark-like plumage to disappear as a stub of dead wood while a sliver of vision through notches in its eyelids keeps watch for danger.
- Sebaran
- Central and South America: from southern Mexico through Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) south through Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil (extreme range extent ~13.2 million km² across 17 countries).
- Makanan
- Nocturnal aerial hunter of large flying insects (beetles, katydids, crickets, grasshoppers, moths); occasionally takes small bats and birds, sallying from a low perch and returning to it.
- Ukuran
- 0,53 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,73 m
- Masa hidup
- 8 tahun
