scrub fowl

bird
Also known as: jungle fowl

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nesting habits

  • Mallee fowl (Leipoa ocellata)
    In megapode

    Megapodes are of three kinds: scrub fowl; brush turkeys (not true turkeys); and mallee fowl, or lowan (Leipoa ocellata), which frequent the mallee, or scrub, vegetation of southern interior Australia. The mallee fowl, the best known of the group, is 65 cm (25.5 inches) long and has white-spotted, light brown…

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