- The
malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a
stocky ground-dwelling
Australian bird
about the size of a
domestic chicken (to
which it is
distantly related). It...
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Australian megapodes showed that
Progura was
closely related to the
living malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata),
though the
fossil species P.
gallinacea was considerably...
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conservation area and it was
established primarily to
protect the
habitat of the
malleefowl. The park was
established in 1977, when the
entire property was purchased...
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typical of
these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all
except the
malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are
brown or
black in color.
Megapodes are...
- (including
chachalacas and cur****ows), and
Megapodiidae (incubator
birds like
malleefowl and brush-turkeys). They
adapt to most
environments except for innermost...
-
closest relatives are the
wattled brushturkey,
Waigeo brushturkey, and
malleefowl. It is a
large bird with
black feathers and a red head. Its
total length...
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Important Bird Area
because it
supports po****tions of
malleefowl and
diamond firetails. The
malleefowl is a rare bird
found on the site and
their protection...
- (Aphelocephala pectoralis)
found on the
eastern edge of the
desert and the
malleefowl of
Mamungari Conservation Park.
Predators of the
desert include the dingo...
- and make it more
difficult for the
chicks to
emerge after hatching. The
malleefowl,
which lives in more open
forest than do
other megapodes, uses the sun...
- are
supported for the
reintroduction of
locally extinct animals such as
malleefowl,
common brushtail possum,
rufous hare-wallaby or mala, bilby, burrowing...
