Forest owl (potoo), about 5 species. A collective term for nocturnal birds in Central and South America. The forest owl (potoo) belongs to the Nyctibiidae genus Nyctibius, a collective name for nocturnal birds in South America. It is closely related to the American Nighthawk, Nighthawk and Membranous Plover.
The life habits of the forest owls (chī) are not the same as those of other birds, and they stick to the trees once they reach the daytime, and because of their similar color to the color of the branches, they look like dead branches from a distance. The forest bird uses the pattern of its feathers to disguise itself as a tree stumps, and once it finds danger, it adopts a posture similar to "freezing" to make them more like a broken tree stumps to avoid danger. The transition from a perching position to a "frozen" posture is also difficult to detect.
Distribution range
Distributed in Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and other countries and regions, South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falkland Islands) are also found in tropical Asia.