Macrocephalon maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) is the only species of the genus Maleo with no subspecies differentiation. This is a timid and shy bird. Active at dawn and dusk, the temperament is withdrawn, often active alone, and rarely active in pairs even during the breeding season. Weak in flight, but very good at running. Its food is mainly plant flowers, seeds, fruits and so on. Nesting is done at traditional sites along the coast of the archipelago, where eggs are buried on sandy beaches, lakeshore and river banks and incubated by heat from the sun or geothermal radiation.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Endangered (EN).
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