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.