Active at night, particularly at dusk and dawn, the Common Potoo is sitting on its dayroost. Though seemingly eyes wide shut, the Potoo has two small gaps in its closed eyelids which allow it to see what is going on even when apparently asleep.

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Created by M.K.Ravishankar (mk_ravishankar@yahoo.com) on Sat Feb 16 17:16:12 2013