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Megapode
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Megapode
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(mg´pd´´), common name for large, stout-bodied, long-tailed, terrestrial, nonmigratory birds comprising six genera in the family Megapodiidae.
Megapodes
Megapodes are also known as mound builders and incubator birds. These birds have large feet which they use to make big heaps of vegetation or shallow burrows in which they incubate their eggs.
The Megapodes
by Darryl N. Jones, René W. R. J. Dekker and Cees R. Roselaar ...
Vanuatu megapode (Megapodius layardi)
Most famed for the remarkable and unusual way in which it incubates its eggs, the Vanuata megapode (Megapodius layardi) is a relatively... More 1 Image 0 videos ...
A new genus of dwarf megapode (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) from the Late Oligocene of central Australia
A new genus of Thelepinae (F. Terebellidae) Glossothelepus from Mexico ...
Medium Komodos feed largely on rodents (rats, shrews) birds (megapodes and various small species) geckos, skinks and small snakes.
Megapodes construct incubation mounds in which eggs are incubated environmentally, through the heat generated by decomposing vegetation, sun-warmed sand or geothermal sources.
Brush Turkeys, and other Megapodes, build large mounds of decaying plant material and bury their eggs within it.
Order: Galliformes - Game birds and such. Includes Megapodes, Chachalacas, Guans, Grouse, Turkeys, Pheasants, Guineafowl and New World Quail.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (the birds)
Order: Galliformes (the Fowl, Quail, Guans, Currasows, Megapodes)
Family: Phasianidae (the Chickens, Grouse, Partridges, Quail, Pheasants, etc.) ...
GALLIFORMES
chickens, pheasants, partridges, grouse, curassows, guineafowl, & megapodes
golden pheasant
helmeted guineafowl ...
The influence of the Australian realm is indicated by a Megapode in Celebes, another in Borneo and Labuan, and a third in the Nicobar islands (which, however, like the Andamans, belong to the Indian province), but there are no cockatoos, ...
 See also: Pheasant, Turkey, Parrot, Diver, Grouse
  
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