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Australian Brush Turkey Habitat is tropical temperate rainforests, scrub; sub-inland brigalow. It's range is coast all the way from Illawarra region (NSW) all the way to Cape York N Qld. The turkeys build a nest In a mound (the temp in the mound determines the sex of the offspring)the mound could be 4 metre across and 1-2 metres high, temp inside is kept about 35C. The female lays about 20+ eggs Alectura lathami,Australian Brushturkey Click/tap to enlarge

Australian Brush Turkey

Habitat is tropical temperate rainforests, scrub; sub-inland brigalow. It's range is coast all the way from Illawarra region (NSW) all the way to Cape York N Qld. The turkeys build a nest In a mound (the temp in the mound determines the sex of the offspring)the mound could be 4 metre across and 1-2 metres high, temp inside is kept about 35C. The female lays about 20+ eggs

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    Ludo Sak
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    Strange yet fascinatingly beauty here. Nice eyes too and coloured featherage. I love the posture here, though I'd have loved to a tiny more more of the cropped head. Those eyes, almost human. Wow. Posted 12 years ago
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    Graeme Ruck
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    thanks, yes they are a strange mixture Posted 12 years ago

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The Australian Brushturkey

The Australian Brushturkey is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Illawarra in New South Wales. The Australian Brushturkey has also been introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

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Similar species: Landfowl
Species identified by Graeme Ruck
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By Graeme Ruck

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Uploaded Aug 1, 2013. Captured Aug 2, 2013 10:41.
  • Canon EOS 1000D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/83s
  • ISO800
  • 300mm

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