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Photo by Neil Fifer
Photographed at Port Douglas, Australia, October,2003

Megapodius reinwardt

[edit] Identification

• Dark grey
• Orange legs
• Crest at the back of the head.

[edit] Distribution

Asia, Australasia
Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, Bali, Moluccas, Island of Timor
Australasia: Papua New Guinea, Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, northern Western Australia, Melanesia

Juvenile
Photo by redmill
Daintree, Australia, December 2006

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. r. buruensis;

• Buru Island (southern Moluccas)

• M. r. reinwardt:

• Lesser Sundas, south-eastern Moluccas, Aru Island, south and south-eastern New Guinea

• M. r. macgillivrayi:

• D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Louisiade Archipelago

• M. r. tumulus:

• Northern Australia

• M. r. yorki:

• North-eastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula and adjacent islands)

• M. r. castanonotus:

• East-central Queensland (Cooktown to Yeppoon and offshore islands)

[edit] Habitat

Scrub, rainforest, foreshores and city parks

[edit] Behaviour

Perches in trees

[edit] Diet

Diet includes seeds, fallen fruit and terrestrial invertebrates.

[edit] Breeding

The nest is a large mound formed from sand and decomposing vegetable matter. The eggs are laid when the mount reaches a temperature of around 30-35 degrees C.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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