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The Malleefowl is one of Australia's most remarkable birds. About the size of a large chook, it builds an incubator rather than a nest to keep the 20 to 30 very large eggs at the right temperature. The incubator is a mound of soil and leaf litter, often over three metres across and a metre from top to bottom. ... WA Bird Cards...
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any ground-living gallinaceous bird of the family Megapodiidae, of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands. Their eggs incubate in mounds of sand, rotting vegetation, etc., by natural heat ... Moulton, Forest Ray; Moultrie; Moultrie, Fort; Moultrie, William; mounce; mound; mound bird; Mound builder (bird);
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Any of a group of chickenlike birds found in the Malay Archipelago and Australia. They pile up large mounds of vegetable matter, earth, and sand 4 m/13 ft across, in which to deposit ... In some species the male bird feels the mound with his tongue and adds or takes away vegetation to provide the correct temperature.
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/Mound+builder+(bird)
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Any of a group of chickenlike birds found in the Malay Archipelago and Australia. They pile up large mounds of vegetable matter, earth, and sand 4 m/13 ft across, in which to deposit ... In some species the male bird feels the mound with his tongue and adds or takes away vegetation to provide the correct temperature.
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/mound+bird
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There are some peculiar birds in the world, and one of the strangest is the Australian Megapod, or Mound bird, ... The Leipoa or native Pheasant of Australia acts like the Megapod and watches the temperature of its mound very closely, covering and uncovering the eggs several times a day to cool them or heat them,
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www.birdnature.com/mar1898/scaledmound.html
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a fairly large bird with a wingspan of about 85 centimetres and a body length of 60 - 75 centimetres. ... they are distributed along the east coast of Australia from Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland to the New South Wales central coast ... The male spends a long time building and defending the nesting mound;
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File Name: moundbird_13046; Description: The mound-bird, also known as a brush-turkey, a species native to Australia. Source: S. G. Goodrich Animal Kingdom Illustrated Vol 2 (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859)2:257;
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etc.usf.edu/clipart/13000/13046/moundbird_13046.htm
etc.usf.edu/clipart/13000/13046/moundbird_13046.htm
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Australian bird clubs Australia birds club finch club parrot clubs pigeon pet pets finches birding association society aviculture avicultural links online ... South Australia Bird Clubs...
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www.birddealer.com/australianbirdsclubs.html
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bird sales find a bird sale Australia parrot sale finch sale pigeon sale Australian sales budgerigar canary ... Bird Observers Club Australia Cairns Branch Whitfield; QLD...
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