ALECTURA LATHAMI
AUSTRALIA
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| AUSTRALIAN BRUSH TURKEY ALECTURA LATHAMI AUSTRALIA |
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| The Brush Turkey belongs to a family of birds known as megapodes because of their large feet and as mound builders because their nests are huge mounds. The male has a yellow neck wattle. The male builds the nest by using his large feet to rake together vegetable debris and sand, and the female buries the eggs in the mound. I have seen such a nest five foot tall and sixteen feet wide. Heat from the sun and from the decaying of the debris incubates the eggs. The young crawl from this nest and the adults brood and care for them. They are classified in the order Galliformes, family Megapodiidae. | |||||||||||||||
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