Australian Owlet-nightjar at suppressed
Identification history
| Aegotheles cristatus | 16 Oct 2024 | JamesLidseyBCT | ||
| Aegotheles cristatus | 15 Oct 2024 | jks | ||
| Aegotheles cristatus | 15 Oct 2024 | jks | ||
| Unidentified | 15 Oct 2024 | Butlinz |
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Is this an owl?
2 comments
JamesLidseyBCT
wrote:
16 Oct 2024
Wow what a capture!! It's an Owlet Nightjar a cool species. Despite the name it's actually not and Owl and some would argue not a nightjar either (although it's more closely related to nightjars than owls)
https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Aegotheles-cristatus
https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Aegotheles-cristatus
Butlinz
wrote:
17 Oct 2024
I was just checking if the cameras were working and found this very exciting
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- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2024 04:46 AM Recorded on
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- Aegotheles cristatus Scientific name
- Australian Owlet-nightjar Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 821.8m Recorded at altitude
- 125 images trained Machine learning
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