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Bird name: Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Latin: Megapodius reinwardt
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Family: Megapodiidae • Scrubfowl

Thanks to Balazs for passing on this photo of an Orange-footed Scrubfowl, seen in Darwin, which has found a large grub to eat.

Orange-footed Scrubfowl are mound-builders or incubator birds. As with other megapodes, they do not sit on their eggs to incubate them but bury them in a mound to keep them warm. The chick breaks out of its egg with its claws and tunnels up through the mound to the surface.More photos...

007 Megapodiidae - Megapodes - IOC 2.5 - 2010

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