Bornean frogmouth

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|page=e.T22689613A220964885 |title=Batrachostomus mixtus |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2023 |volume=2023 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T22689613A220964885.en }}

| genus = Batrachostomus

| species = mixtus

| authority = Sharpe, 1892

| synonyms =

Batrachostomus poliolophus mixtus

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The Bornean frogmouth (Batrachostomus mixtus) is bird species in the family Podargidae. Some{{who|date=September 2017}} taxonomists consider it to be a subspecies of the short-tailed frogmouth, but others{{who|date=September 2017}} consider it to be a distinct species. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia and is endemic to the island of Borneo.{{cite book |title=Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo |author=Phillipps, Quentin |author2= Phillipps, Karen |name-list-style= amp |year=2011 |publisher=John Beaufoy Publishing |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-1-906780-56-2 }} Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species was discovered by Charles Hose on Mount Dulit in Sarawak, Borneo, and described by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1892 for the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.

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{{cite journal|last1=Sharpe|first1=R. Bowdler|title=New Bornean birds|journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|date=1892|volume=1|issue=2|pages=iv–v|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32475158}}

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