Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Megapodius reinwardt· 冢雉科(1 photos)
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Orange-footed Scrubfowl
40-50 cm. Dark, small-headed fowl with a short crest and powerful orange legs and feet. Pairs, parties: active, noisy at dawn, dusk and at night. Disturbed, runs quickly, or flaps up heavily to a low branch, sits motionless with outstretched neck.
- Other names
- Junglefowl (erroneous), Orange-footed Megapode
- Similar Species
- Brush-turkey has bare red head and neck; vertically fanned black tail.
- Voice
- raucous loud double crow; cluckings, like protesting domestic fowl.
- Habitat
- mostly lowland rainforests, beach and vine-scrubs; mangroves.
- Breeding
- July-March, nest-mound may be worked all year and may be used by more than one pair: large mound of earth and vegetation, or of beach sand, to 12 m in diameter and 3 m high, usually smaller.
- Eggs
- 6-12; cream-white to pale pink, stained pale brown or red-brown. Laid annually by each female, singly, in deep excavations in mound; at times in decaying leaves in fissures in sun-heated rocks, or in sand.
- Range & Status
- coastal n. Aust. and islands; from nw. Kimberley (WA), where patchy, to e. Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt (NT); in Q, from Mitchell R., w. C. York Pen. and islands in Torres Strait, s. on e. coast to near Byfield; highland records Atherton Tableland. Common; sedentary. Also from Nicobar Is. (Indian Ocean) to Philippines, Indonesia, PNG, New Heb.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Megapodius reinwardt reinwardt 2. Megapodius reinwardt tumulus 3. Megapodius reinwardt yorki 4. Megapodius reinwardt castanonotus
