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A Feline Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles insignis) rests in a dense thicket of vegetation by day. This unusual family of nocturnal insectivorous birds, whose center of distribution is in New Guinea, is neither closely related to owls nor nightjars, and are placed in their own order. West Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).
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- © Chien C. Lee
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Aegothelidae, Aves, Caprimulgiformes, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Papua Barat, Southeast Asia, West Papua, Western New Guinea, animal, bird, camouflage, crypsis, cryptic, fauna, insect-eating, insectivore, insectivorous, nocturnal, owlet-nightjar, predator, predatory, rainforest, tropical, wildlife
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- Birds, New Guinea
