Alectura lathami

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Noun1.Alectura lathami - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New GuineaAlectura lathami - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
brush turkey
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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Paternity in the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami, a megapode bird with uniparental male care.
Cooperative Breeding of Buff-Throated Partridges in Two Natural Populations: Demographic Comparison with a Habituated Population
Gluing has been successfully used to attach transmitters to Australian brush-turkeys Alectura lathami chicks (Goth and Jones 2001) and wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo poults (Spears et al.
Evaluation of leg banding and attachment of radio-transmitters on ring-necked pheasant chicks
Goth A and Proctor H (2001) Pecking preferences in hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami (Megapodiidae): the role of food type and colour.
Young turks: Steve Davidson reckons brush-turkey chicks are the solitary street kids of the rainforest
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