Aepypodius bruijnii

IUCN

Alias：Bruijn’s Brush Turkey，Aepypodius bruijnii

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Aepypodius bruijnii
Aliases：Bruijn’s Brush Turkey，Aepypodius bruijnii
Outline：Landfowl
Family：Cocciformes Megacanthidae C.Megacanthidae

Vital signs

length：About 40 cm
Weight：About 1.5kg
lifetime：No textual research information is available

Feature

Details

Its scientific name is Aepypodius bruijnii, and its foreign name is Bruijn's Brush Turkey. It has a special nesting habit. It does not incubate its own eggs, but lays its eggs in the accumulation of humus, sand and volcanic ash, which is incubated by natural heat.

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Location

It is distributed in the Wallace Region (refers to the area east of the traditional Wallace Line (from the eastern side of Mindanao through the Makassar Strait between Bali and Lombok) and west of Papua New Guinea, including the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Southwest Islands, Moluccas (Maluku Islands), East Timor and other islands).

Form

As big as a chicken; The mouth is conical; The head is mostly featherless, the skin is bare, yellow or red; The male and female feathers are close in color, mainly black and brown. The toes are strong.