Nyctibius grandis

With its hairy eyes and brown markings, the bird looks like a dead piece of wood.

Located in Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and other countries and regions, South America, It includes Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falkland Islands), as well as tropical Asia.

There are two subspecies: Nyctibius grandis and Great Potoo.

Big birds are nocturnal animals, they will come out at night to feed, and find a place to sleep during the day. The cry is like a ghost. In Colombia, there was a funny story about a woman who was scared by a big owl.

So far, there are two countries and regions in the world have issued a total of 3 stamps of the forest owl family, including 2 big forest owl stamps and 1 ordinary forest owl stamps. The stamps were issued in Suriname on January 31, 2001 and in the Netherlands Antilles on April 20, 2009.

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