Megapode - Wikipedia Megapodes are medium-sized to large terrestrial birds with large legs and feet with sharp claws Megapodes are of three kinds: scrub fowl, brush turkeys, and mallee fowl or lowan
Megapode | Mound-building, Burrowing, Egg-laying | Britannica megapode, (family Megapodiidae), any of 12 species of Australasian chickenlike birds (order Galliformes) that bury their eggs to hatch them Most species rely on fermenting plant matter to produce heat for incubation, but some use solar heat and others the heat produced by volcanic action
Megapode The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae
Megapodiidae (megapodes) | INFORMATION | Animal Diversity Web Megapodes are chicken-like birds with notably large feet Instead of using body heat to directly incubate eggs, megapodes passively incubate eggs Megapodes are sometimes referred to as mound builders because of their habit of burying their eggs under mounds of decaying vegetation
MEGAPODE AND MALEO: CHARACTERISTICS, BEHAVIOR, NEST MOUNDS | Facts and . . . Megapodes are birds in the family Megapodiidae with unusual nesting habits that live in tropical Australia, islands in the western Pacific, New Guinea, islands of Indonesia east of the Wallace Line and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal
Megapodes - Mound-Builders | BirdNote These birds are called megapodes or mound-builders, and they look a bit like large chickens There are about 20 different species, and they’re found in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands
Megapodiidae - Megapodes - Birds of the World These chicken-like Australasian birds, whose name means “big foot” in Greek, use their powerful feet to burst out of the shell The newly hatched chicks then dig up through overlying warm material to emerge into the open air
Bird Megapodiidae - Megapodes - Fat Birder Megapodes are super-precocial, hatching from their eggs in the most mature condition of any birds They hatch with open eyes, bodily coordination and strength, full wing feathers and downy body feathers, and are able to run, pursue prey, and, in some species, fly on the same day they hatch
Melanesian megapode - Wikipedia All megapodes are found in Australasia, [3] and, within this region, the Melanesian scrubfowl has an island distribution encompassing the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands [5]