PROGMOUTH FAMILY
All the inmates of Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney are not there under compulsion. The frogmoutb family are voluntary boarders. Tho Australian trees that add so much beauty to the park have attracted much native bird-life, and every year for the past 20 years a pair of tawny frogmouths have been coming to build their nest in the same tree. Mr. and Mrs. Frogmouth arrive at the end of January. In September the eggs are laid, and in October, as soon as the young birds can fly, the little family vanishes. At the end of three months the father and mother birds CQme back without their offspring, and the whole procedure starts all over again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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117PROGMOUTH FAMILY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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