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megapode

any of the mound birds of Australia and SE Asia that bury their eggs in mounds of earth so that the eggs develop without incubation.
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Along with that, flocks of White-Collared Kingfisher, Macklot's Sunbird, Pygmy Flowerpecker, Chinese egrets, scops owls, megapodes (Tabon), eagles and the Nico Bar (Siete Colores) make the island their permanent address.
Birdmageddon: A journey to Ursula's deepest secret
Using a machete to slice through layer-upon-layer of thick ferns and spiralling vines, Joseph clears our path to a thermal lake and hot springs where megapodes incubate eggs in the warm ground.
THE WORLD BENEATH THE WAVES; KIMBE BAY WAS ONE OF THE LAST PLACES CONSERVATIONIST JACQUES COUSTEAU DIVED. SARAH MARSHALL EXPLORES BELOW THE SURFACE
The selection of incubation sites by the Philippine Megapode, Megapodius cumingii, in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Cooperative Breeding of Buff-Throated Partridges in Two Natural Populations: Demographic Comparison with a Habituated Population
What does the Micronesian megapode use to warm its eggs?
Sea of surprises: a newly protected tropical paradise has a deep, dark secret
Worldwide, there are 22 megapode species, all occurring in the Australo-Pacific region.
Young turks: Steve Davidson reckons brush-turkey chicks are the solitary street kids of the rainforest
The Navy prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) to consider the impact on migratory birds, consulted with the FWS under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (15) to assess the effects on the protected Micronesian megapode, and identified and implemented mitigation measures to avoid and minimize adverse impacts.
"Excuse me, sir, do you have a permit for that bomb?" (military installations and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act)
Spreading east from Wallace's Line, Wallacea is a sort of no-man's land between Asian and Australian realms, the exclusive home of many strange creatures like the dragons of Komodo, the dwarf buffalos of Sulawesi, and the megapode birds of the Moluccas.
Indonesia's Coral Reefs on the Line
It was first considered to be a running bird; later it was suggested that it was a highly modified galliform, a giant megapode, or a scrubfowl, thanks to the discovery of large earth tumuli (megapodes built large earth mounds to breed), up to 131 ft (40 m) in diameter, that were first studied by archaeologists unsuccessfully seeking human burials.
The islands, the lakes and the caves
Land-based resources include the following: yams, cassowaries, small mammals, wallabies, reptiles, bush turkey, parrot, wild honey, magpie goose eggs, megapode eggs, moth larvae, rainforest nuts, plant buds, stems and stalks and fruit.
Traditional production activities and resource sustainability: the case of indigenous societies in Cape York Peninsula, Australia
and Jones, D.N., 2003.Ontogeny of social behavior in the megapode Australian brush-turkey (Alecturalathami).
Time-Budgets of Turkeys (Maleagris gallopavo) Reared Under Confinement and Free Range Rearing Systems
INDIA'S mammoth economic development juggernaut is taking a toll on the country's biodiversity, putting at risk various species of birds and animals such as great Indian bustard, Bengal florican, houbara, Nicobar megapode, golden jackal, Indian fox and nilgai.
' Wildlife conservation a challenge in India'
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