Great eared nightjars live on the forest floor, remaining motionless throughout the day, camouflaged among leaf litter and tree stumps. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our ...

The common potoo resembles a broken branch, while the tawny frogmouth mimics tree bark. Eurasian bitterns blend with reeds, and American woodcocks disappear into leaf litter.

Birds often display incredible site and resource fidelity, notes Yanco–returning not just to the same region, but to the same tree and nest perch year-to-year. “There’s a lot of memory and ...