Potoo
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Potoos | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Caprimulgiformes | familia = Nyctibiidae | familia_authority = Bonaparte, 1853 | genus = Nyctibius | genus_authority = Vieillot, 1816 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} The potoos (sometimes called Poor-Me-Ones) are large near passerine birds related to the nightjars and frogmouths.
These are nocturnal insectivores which lack the bristles around the mouth found in the true nightjars. They hunt from a perch like a shrike or flycatcher. During the day they perch upright on tree stumps, and look like part of the stump. The single spotted egg is laid directly on the top of a stump.
There are five species in one genus in tropical South America.
- Great Potoo, Nyctibius grandis
- Long-tailed Potoo, Nyctibius aethereus
- Lesser Potoo, Nyctibius griseus
- White-winged Potoo, Nyctibius leucopterus
- Rufous Potoo, Nyctibius bracteatusda:Potuer
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