Frogmouths | |
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Tawny frogmouth, at night | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Clade: | Vanescaves |
Order: | Podargiformes Matthews, 1918 |
Family: | Podargidae Gray, 1847 |
Genera | |
The frogmouths (Podargidae) are a group of nocturnal birds related to owlet-nightjars, swifts, and hummingbirds. Species in the group are distributed in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.