brush turkey

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brush turkey

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)

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brush turkey - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea

Alectura lathami

megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl, mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

Alectura, genus Alectura - brush turkeys

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Alectura
Alectura lathami
genus Alectura
megapode
Megapodiidae

mound bird
scrub fowl
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Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia.

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