The moment that she stood perfectly still baffles predators by blending perfectly with her surroundings.
Video footage of a Great Potoo bird standing on an old wooden fence post has resurfaced. She is so perfectly camouflaged she is almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
The video in question was shot by Vanderlei Benites Scalabrim, brazil, showing the almost invisible bird standing perfectly still with her beak straight up in the air.
Footage then shows the bird suddenly fly off, leaving behind an egg.
Later the video shows the egg has hatched and has been replaced by a young fledgling.
The fledgling stands on the same wooden post, standing perfectly still blending in with the post.
A message on the screen says, “The chick is already big’ as the young potoo has grown so much since the last clip.”
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The video first appeared online on January 16 2015 and has recently resurfaced.
The common potoo is a nocturnal species that live in the Southern Hemisphere and uses camouflage to hide from its predators.
It has eyes that take up much of its skull, giving it excellent night vision, while slits in the eyelids help it to sense the movement of predators even while asleep.
It has eyes that take up much of its skull, giving it excellent night vision, They typically rest on broken tree branches or wooden fence posts and do not build nests.
The great potoo is a world leader at pretending to be a tree stump, spending most of its time perched upright on branches.
The birds are about 38cm long and are a grey-brown color, which helps them blend in with their surroundings.
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Their underparts are predominantly bright orange-red!
Appropriately named due to the male suit of dazzling red!
A pale lavender tone adorns its throat and breast!
The males dazzle!
While less extravagant, features a chestnut forehead and yellow underparts.
Males tend to have a more pronounced ridge on their bills.
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