Malleefowl: S1, profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Fowls (Galliformes)

Family:

Mound-builder (Megapodiidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)

This Photo:

🔍S1, profile🔎

Other names:

Mallee-fowl or Mallee Fowl

Thank you Matt Campbell (MattCampbellAUS) & Pete Woodall (Nyoni-Pete) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
The parents constantly adjust the nest to keep the incubation temperature at 30 deg C. You can see the different heights of the two different mounds here. The 1st has eggs on a very hot day (~39 deg C), the second is probably empty.

This species is classed as	CR (Critically Endangered)	in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)
This species is protected and classed as	VU (Vulnerable)	under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act

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