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Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. Sometimes called “Poor-me-ones” on account of their haunting calls, these bizarre denizens of the night come in 7 different flavors from the family Nyctibiidae within the order Caprimulgiformes. 10,000 Birds writers have previously featured 2 [...]

This is the smallest and the most difficult to find Potoo in South America and I was lucky enough to find the easiest place to see this nocturnal bird that only a few people have seen it.   I had read that the Gareno Lodge was famous for this bird but I could not find a [...]

On our way to the lovely Lodge at Pico Bonito on the edge of Pico Bonito National Park in northern Honduras, Robert Gallardo, the organizer of the Mesoamerican Birding Festival and the post-festival familiarity trip that I am currently experiencing, let us all know that a Great Potoo (Nyctibius grandis) had been roosting along the [...]