The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It...
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Australian megapodes showed that Progura was closely related to the living malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), though the fossil species P. gallinacea was considerably...
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typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all except the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are brown or black in color. Megapodes are...
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conservation area and it was established primarily to protect the habitat of the malleefowl. The park was established in 1977, when the entire property was purchased...
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Ferries McDonald Conservation Park (section Malleefowl)
protection of the Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), a native bird species that originally inhabited much of the natural mallee environment. Malleefowl are easy prey...
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of the reserve to study the ecology and behaviour of a small number of malleefowl. Frith's research led him to publish nine scientific papers and a book...
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Important Bird Area because it supports populations of malleefowl and diamond firetails. The malleefowl is a rare bird found on the site and their protection...
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Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports isolated key populations of the malleefowl (with from 250 to 500 individuals present) and the red-lored whistler...
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(Aphelocephala pectoralis) found on the eastern edge of the desert and the malleefowl of Mamungari Conservation Park. Predators of the desert include the dingo...
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(including chachalacas and curassows), and Megapodiidae (incubator birds like malleefowl and brush-turkeys). They adapt to most environments except for innermost...
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Harold Frith (section Malleefowl research)
transferred to the Division of Wildlife and carried out extensive research on malleefowl, waterfowl, especially magpie geese, and pigeons. He eventually became...
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closest relatives are the wattled brushturkey, Waigeo brushturkey, and malleefowl. It is a large bird with black feathers and a red head. Its total length...
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and make it more difficult for the chicks to emerge after hatching. The malleefowl, which lives in more open forest than do other megapodes, uses the sun...
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are supported for the reintroduction of locally extinct animals such as malleefowl, common brushtail possum, rufous hare-wallaby or mala, bilby, burrowing...
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(Casuarius lydekkeri) Genyornis (a two-meter-tall (6.6 ft) dromornithid Giant malleefowl (Progura gallinacea) Cryptogyps lacertosus Dynatoaetus gaffae Several...
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Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of the vulnerable malleefowl, the Gawler Ranges subspecies of the short-tailed grasswren, rufous treecreeper...
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including the endangered Carnaby's black cockatoo and the vulnerable malleefowl. The Wheatbelt encompasses a range of ecosystems and, as a result, there...
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Malherbe's parakeet Mali firefinch Malia Malindi pipit Mallard Mallee emu-wren Malleefowl Mamberamo shrikethrush Mamberamo sunbird Manchurian bush warbler Manchurian...
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also share some characteristics with megapodes (such as the Australian malleefowl and brush-turkey). The very name chachalaca (from Paraguayan Spanish)...
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provided information on how to go about it. Bird species include Emu Malleefowl Mallee emu-wren Ostrich Plains-wanderer Rufous-crowned emu-wren Mammal...
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some omnivory. Progura gallinacea (the giant malleefowl) was a larger relative of the extant malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata). Cryptogyps lacertosus Dynatoaetus...
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pectoralis) found on the eastern edge of the Great Victoria Desert and the malleefowl of Mamungari Conservation Park. About 103 species of mammals lived there...
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The town was home to the Malleefowl Preservation Group which operated until 2015. In 2007 the Yongergnow Australian Malleefowl Centre was opened. Yongergnow...
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tree-hollows suitable for many animals. Birds recorded on the reserve include malleefowl, Australian bustards, Major Mitchell's cockatoos, peregrine falcons, crested...
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A later study suggested that the eggs actually belonged to the giant malleefowl, a species of extinct megapode. A 2022 study examined the protein sequences...
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D /d/; "dog" darbal (estuary) DJ or TJ /ɟ/; similar to "jewish" djen (foot) or nortj (death) NY /ɲ/; "canyon" nyungar NG /ŋ/; "sing" ngow (malleefowl)...
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Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation. Lyra was known as Urcuchillay by the Incas and was worshipped...
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the flightless ratites (the emu and southern cassowary), megapodes (the malleefowl and Australian brush-turkey), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order...
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wedge-tailed eagles may take Australian brush turkeys (Alectura lathami) and malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), quail, pigeons and doves, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars...
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example, the megapodes (large, ground-dwelling birds such as the Australian malleefowl, Leipoa ocellata) construct a large mound of vegetation and soil or sand...
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