malleefowl

We watched the bird for twenty minutes as it moved the sand around, and I took over 300 photos!

The Malleefowl is considered a threatened species, due to habitat destruction. However, this particular one has a mound that is so well established that it's shown on some local maps! There are two benches 50 feet away for you to watch the male tend the mound!

Malleefowl

A breeding pair of Malleefowl. Its about the only time of year near a mound that you get to see these birds

I was lucky enough to be invited to one of Australian Wildlife Conservacy Sanctuary's in August. This one was called Scotia and part of the property has been fenced and feral animals have been removed and replaced with serveral critically endangered Marsupials such as Greater Bilby, Mala...

After Jaurdi I went on to Ongerup in the south of the state to attend a Malleefowl search/survey. This bird is breeding around Ongerup and I was lucky enough to catch it on the mound which he had just covered up. We saw 3 birds this day.

I was happy with the focus on this digiscoped shot of a running bird.

i was keen to see this bird on my visit to Victoria The Malleefowl lays its eggs in a large mound of Sand, Gravel and vegetation then the male controls the Temperature of the mound to 33 centigrade until the eggs hatch amazing how they can tell the Temperature

Malleefowl re-arranging mound; no evidence of breeding/nesting at this point - suspect may be a "practice" mound. Rearranging appears at random.

Large scrub bird, nests in 5m ground mound. Shy & quiet.