Talegalla fuscirostris

The pheasant is 51-58 cm long and weighs 1325-1400 grams for males and 1000-1560 grams for females. As big as a chicken; The mouth is conical; The head has no feathers, the skin is bare, and the male and female feathers are close in color, mainly black and brown. The toes are strong. The whole body is dark gray, navy blue or black, the upper body to the tail color is deepest and most glossy, the lower body chest and abdomen color is slightly light and gray. It has a black beak and yellow legs and feet. It is almost identical to the red-billed pheasant, except that the beak is black.

It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
It inhabits hilly or lowland forest areas and reaches an altitude of 1600 m.

Talegalla fuscirostris (Black-billed Brush-turkey) has four subspecies.

The black-billed camp Megacanth acts alone and in pairs. Omnivorous, eating small invertebrates and a wide variety of foods on the forest floor. Shy and mysterious, but can perch in small trees and fly short distances, not long distances.

They do not incubate their own eggs, but lay their eggs in piles of humus leaves, and use natural heat to incubate their eggs naturally in a large burial mound-shaped nest. The chicks hatch in the mound, sometimes as deep as 90 centimeters below the soil. It takes them 15 to 20 hours to get out of the mound. The clever little bird poked its head out of the crowd and was immediately surrounded by a strange and hostile world. Soon after its birth, the chicks will fly low from the ground and flutter to the low branches, where they will rest and spend the night.

All are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).

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