The family Podargidae contains the Frogmouths. Their closest relatives are Owlet Nightjars of family Aegothelidae and Nightjars of Family Caprimulgidae. They are found in Asia and Australasia, are poor flyers, and feed on insects and even small vertebrates.
Genus Podargus
mainly Asia, some in Australasia
Frogmouth,_Blyth's Batrachostomus affinis Found: southeast Asia, Borneo
Image by: 1) lonelyshrimp
Frogmouth,_Javan Batrachostomus javensis Found: Bali and Java (Indonesiao)
The Javan Frogmouth has mainly brown upperparts with white and gray; paler flanks, belly. Females are tawnier and paler.
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi 2) Lip_kee - Java 
1) Female 2) Male
Frogmouth,_Dulit Batrachostomus harterti Found: Borneo
The Dulit Frogmouth has dark chestnut-brown upperparts; buffish barring on crown; wing-coverts have large white spots; paler brown underparts with buff bars and spots.
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Ashley_Banwell
Frogmouth,_Gould's Batrachostomus stellatus Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi - Thailand
Frogmouth,_Hodgson's Batrachostomus hodgsoni Found: China, Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia
Image by: 1) lonelyshrimp 2) Tony_Castro - Thailand 3) Amarjyoti_Saikia - India 3) Naturelly 4) Ayuwat_Jearwattanakanok - Thailand
Frogmouth,_Large Batrachostomus auritus Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand.
The Large Frogmouth has chestnut and blackish-brown upperpartse; dull brown or pale rufous underparts spotted with white.
Image by: 1) LonelyShrimp - Malaysia Con_Foley - Malaysia 2) James_Eaton - Sumatra, Indonesia
Frogmouth,_Marbled Podargus ocellatus Found: Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
The male Marbled Frogmouth has dull gray-brown upperparts (often with marbling and streaking); or deep rufous upperparts (often with very little marbling). Underparts also variable, often with irregular white barring and longitudinal dark streaks. Females usually darker than males, but can be hard to differentiate.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova 3) Bauple58
Frogmouth,_Palawan Batrachostomus chaseni Found: Palawan in the Philippines.
Image by: 1) Blake_Matheson 2) Mark_Harper 3) Brendan_Ryan - Palawan
Frogmouth,_Papuan Podargus papuensis Found: Australia, New Guinea
The Papuan Frogmouth has a bulbous bill; red eye; cream eyebrow; long tail; dark wings. Male slightly larger; marbled in appearance; female more rufous in appearance.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Daderot 3) Graham_Winterflood 4) Jerry_Oldenettel
Frogmouth,_Philippine Batrachostomus septimus Found: Philippines
Image by: 1) Joseph_Smit 2) David_Fisher 3) Ramon_Quisumbing 4) Charles_Davies
Frogmouth,_Short-tailed also Sumatran Frogmouth Batrachostomus poliolophus Found: Sumatra (Indonesia)
Image by: 1) Seshadri_KS 2) James_Eaton - Sumatra, Indonesia
Frogmouth,_Sri_Lanka Batrachostomus moniliger Found: India, Sri Lanka
The male Sri Lanka Frogmouth has gray-brown plumage with fine barring and spotted crown. Some males are browner and more similar to females. Female has rufous or chestnut brown; some have black spotting on crown.
Image by: 1) Shanthanu_Bhardwaj 2) Aaron_Maizlish - India 3) Arshad.ka5
1) Male left, female right
Frogmouth,_Sunda Batrachostomus cornutus Found: Borneo, Sumtra
Image by: 1) Melindra12 2) David_Cook - Borneo
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Frogmouth, Tawny Podargus strigoides Found: Australia
The Tawny Frogmouth has yellow eyes and a wide beak topped with a tuft of bristly feathers. They hunt at night, mainly on insects.
Image by: 1) Benjamint444 - southeast Asia 2) David Cook - Australia
3) Blueday - Sydney, Australia
4, 5) Dick Daniels - Miami Zoo 6) Dick
Daniels - Featherdale Wildlife Park, Australia 7) Charlie Westerinen - Swansea, Australia
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Genus Rigidipenna - 1 species
Frogmouth,_Solomons `Rigidipenna inexpectata Found: Solomon Islands
The Solomons Frogmouth differs in several ways from other frogmouths, for instance in having only eight tail feathers instead of the more usual ten or twelve, and also in having coarser feathers. It also has barred primary feathers and tail feathers, larger speckles and more pronounced white spots.
Image by: 1) Siddarth_Raj
