brush turkey
Alectura lathami latin , auch: wattle turkey

Budgerigars and Brush Turkeys have been recorded in the reserve.

Brush turkeys are also a common sight, as are families of kangaroos and wallabies.

Some egg-laying animals make or use hotbeds to incubate their eggs: for example the brush turkey.

Tungamah takes its name from the Aboriginal word for the Brush Turkey.

Common fauna observed in the gorge include the Australian brush turkey and Boyd's forest dragon.

Brush turkeys, mound-building birds who hatch their eggs in compost heaps, belong to the Australian region.

Brush turkeys are fairly common nowadays, but in the 1930s it was supposed that the bird was approaching extinction.

Koalas were introduced to Kangaroo Island only 70 years ago, along with platypuses, brush turkeys and wombats.

In humans, as in all other mammalian and bird species except brush turkeys, an egg that has just been fertilized is incapable of independent survival.

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water provides hints for living with brush turkeys in urban environments.

Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia.

It was in MacLeay's suburban garden that Gould saw his first living wattled talegalla or brush turkey roaming freely among the chickens.

Noteworthy birds occurring here include the Osprey, Green Catbird, Wompoo Fruit-dove and Brush Turkey.

Highlights of the Ring Track are rainforest and many species of unique Australian animals, including wallabies, lyrebirds, brush turkeys, echidnas.

The only bird that regularly directs missiles at other species is the Australian brush turkey, which kicks sand and stones at lizards when it is competing with them for food.

There are also Currawongs, Noisy Pittas, King parrots, Crimson rosellas, Wonga pigeons and brush turkeys.

In 1804 a logrunner bird was collected on Mount Kembla, this being the first to be scientifically described, although it is not common to see logrunners, or brush turkeys as some sources incorrectly state.

Two interesting birds often encountered in dense scrub or rainforest include the flightless Brush Turkey (Alectura lathami) and the noise mimicking Superb Lyre Bird (Menura novaehollandiae).

The forests on these islands abounded in honey-eaters, regent-birds, satin-birds and wood-pigeons; Mosquito Island was also where Gould saw his first live brush turkey, or wattled talegalla, scratching about on the forest floor.

In these ecosystems inhabit the deer, the badger, the pig, the fox, the raccoon, the paca, the turtles, the boa, the four noses or nauyaca, the brush turkey and pheasant and an abundance of endemic and migratory songbirds.

Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) will eat immature Lycoperdon and Bovista fungi if presented to them as will brush turkeys (Alectura lathami) if offered Mycena, suggesting that species of Megapodiidae may feed opportunistically on mushrooms.

The Australian Brushturkey (Alectura lathami) also does not become broody, rather, it covers the eggs with a large mound of vegetable matter which decomposes keeping the eggs warm until hatching.

Two interesting birds often encountered in dense scrub or rainforest include the flightless Brush Turkey (Alectura lathami) and the noise mimicking Superb Lyre Bird (Menura novaehollandiae).

Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) will eat immature Lycoperdon and Bovista fungi if presented to them as will brush turkeys (Alectura lathami) if offered Mycena, suggesting that species of Megapodiidae may feed opportunistically on mushrooms.