Blyth's Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis)

Family
Podargidae (Frogmouths)

Size
21 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
Blyth, 1847

Habitat
Subtropical and tropcal lowland moist forest and shrubland, subtropical and tropical mangroves.

Range (Guide)

Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines (B), Thailand, Vietnam.

South-eastern peninsular Thailand south to Sumatra and Riau Archipelago, then east through Borneo and Banggi I (off northern Borneo) to western Philippines (Palawan, Culion I).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (54)...)

Blyth's Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis) [XC37520]
by Rolf A. de By from Bala, Thailand (song)

Blyth's Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis) [XC729252]
by Joshua Chong from Panti Bird Sanctuary, Johor, Malaysia (call)

Subspecies
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Horsfield's Frogmouth (Batrachostomus javensis).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

continentalis Stresemann, 1937 - South-eastern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim) and north, western and southern Thailand (south to Nakhon Si Thammarat). Also southern Laos and central Vietnam (Annam).
affinis Blyth, 1847 - Northern Thailand, southern Myanmar, central Vietnam to south-eastern peninsular Thailand to Sumatra, Borneo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Blyths Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis) - 10 files

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