David Pattyn / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on tree with a young juvenile opposite it, Mindo cloud forest area, Ecuador, July

Chien Lee / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) mimicking branch, Utria National Park, Colombia

Morley Read / Common potoo (Nyctibeus griseus) camouflaged on nest on a dead tree stump, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Common potoo (Nyctibeus griseus) camouflaged on nest on a dead tree stump, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Lucas Bustamante / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) perched on a stump, Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.

Francois Savigny / Common potoo female well camouflaged on nest (Nyctibius griseus) Ecuador, Cuyabeno reserve.

Nate Chappell/ BIA / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) at night, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean

Tony Heald / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) perched on post at night, Pantanal, Brazil

Tui De Roy / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on branch, Nanegalito, Andes, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on branch, Nanegalito, Andes, Ecuador

Chris Mattison / Common pottoo (Nyctibius griseus) sitting on stump, Amazon, Ecuador, South America, November.

David Tipling / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) on Amazon River, near Iquitos, Peru.

Glenn Bartley / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus), Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) at rest, Andean cloud forest, Mindo Valley, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) landing, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) landing, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on tree, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on tree, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on stump, Rupununi, Guyana

Luciano Candisani / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on stump, Bonito, Brazil

Tui De Roy / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on stump, Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

Tim Laman / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) resting by day in the crown of a red mangrove tree, Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad.

Pete Oxford / Common potoo on day roost {Nyctibius griseus} Cerrado habitat, Brazil, South America

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) cryptic plumage, in mangrove rainforest, Central America

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) cryptic plumage, in mangrove rainforest, Central America

Pete Oxford / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) on day-time roost, Cerrado habitat, northeast Brazil

Flip de Nooyer / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) portrait at night, Guyana

Pete Oxford / Common potoo at day roost {Nyctibus griseus} Cerrado habitat, NE Brazil

Pete Oxford / Common potoo at day roost {Nyctibus griseus} Cerrado habitat, NE Brazil

Pete Oxford / Common potoo at day roost {Nyctibus griseus} Cerrado habitat, NE Brazil

Robin Chittenden / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) on tree stump, Trinidad and Tobago.

Tui De Roy / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on stump, Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Grey Potoo (Nyctibius griseus griseus) perching on stump mimicking its coloration and shape, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) roosting on broken tree branch during the day, Pousada Araras, Pantanal, Brazil.

Roman Willi / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) perched in tree, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Roland Seitre / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on branch, Brazil.

Christian Ziegler / Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) camouflaged on tree, Panama

Carlos Zorrilla / Common potoo (Nyctibious griseus) sleeping as chick yawns next to it, Ecuador, March.

Carlos Zorrilla / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) fledgling preening before yawning, Ecuador.

Carlos Zorrilla / Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) sleeping, perched on branch, Ecauador.