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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Orange-footed Scrub Fowl is a large fowl with a small head. It has a short crest and bare patch of yellow skin round the eye. The legs and feet are orange.
Other Names
Jungle-fowl, Scrub-hen
Size
45cm
Habitat
rainforest, scrub, sometimes mangroves
Food
insects, soil invertebrates, seeds, fruit
Breeding
The Orange-footed Scrub Fowl builds a large mound of earth and plant matter that can measure several metres in diameter and over a metre high. Yellowish white or pale pink eggs are laid in the mound individually.
Range
coastal northern Australia from central Queensland coast to the Kimberleys in Western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Galliformes | | Family: | Megapodiidae | | Genus: | Megapodius | | Species: | reinwardt | | Common Name: | Orange-footed Scrub Fowl |
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