🎨 Galliformes
🐓 Orange-footed Scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt)
📏 42–47 cm
📍1: Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve &
📍2: Lee Point, Northern Territory, Australia 🇦🇺
🗓 Aug 2023

#birds #galliformes #megapodes

The Brush #Turkey aka Alectura lathami is one of our Aussie #megapodes, birds that build mounds to incubate their eggs like crocs do. The mounds of twigs & leaves ferment to heat their eggs. The chicks dig out of the mulch mound & run off all independent. We almost ate them all in great depression

Vulnerability of megapodes (Megapodiidae, Aves) to climate change and related threats | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core Vulnerability of megapodes (Megapodiidae, Aves) to climate change and related threats - Volume 45 Issue 4

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