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...

Australian megapodes showed that Progura was closely related to the living malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), though the fossil species P. gallinacea was considerably...

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...

protection of the Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), a native bird species that originally inhabited much of the natural mallee environment. Malleefowl are easy prey...

transferred to the Division of Wildlife and carried out extensive research on malleefowl, waterfowl, especially magpie geese, and pigeons. He eventually became...

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...

(including chachalacas and curassows), and Megapodiidae (incubator birds like malleefowl and brush-turkeys). They adapt to most environments except for innermost...

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...

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...

(Aphelocephala pectoralis) found on the eastern edge of the desert and the malleefowl of Mamungari Conservation Park. Predators of the desert include the dingo...

are supported for the reintroduction of locally extinct animals such as malleefowl, common brushtail possum, rufous hare-wallaby or mala, bilby, burrowing...

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...

(Casuarius lydekkeri) Genyornis (a two-meter-tall (6.6 ft) dromornithid Giant malleefowl (Progura gallinacea) Cryptogyps lacertosus Dynatoaetus gaffae Several...

tree-hollows suitable for many animals. Birds recorded on the reserve include malleefowl, Australian bustards, Major Mitchell's cockatoos, peregrine falcons, crested...

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...

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...

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...

some omnivory. Progura gallinacea (the giant malleefowl) was a larger relative of the extant malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata). Cryptogyps lacertosus Dynatoaetus...

including the endangered Carnaby's black cockatoo and the vulnerable malleefowl. The Wheatbelt encompasses a range of ecosystems and, as a result, there...

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...

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...

Malherbe's parakeet Mali firefinch Malia Malindi pipit Mallard Mallee emu-wren Malleefowl Mamberamo shrikethrush Manchurian bush warbler Manchurian reed warbler...

megapodes by its large size, though it is smaller than the extinct giant malleefowl. The scientific and common name honor the first Prime Minister of Vanuatu...

also share some characteristics with megapodes (such as the Australian malleefowl and brush-turkey). The very name chachalaca (from Paraguayan Spanish)...

mallee, denoting a class of Australian vegetation and a bird, the native malleefowl. "Lalor" recalls Peter Lalor, leader of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion. The...

medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet. All but the malleefowl occupy jungle habitats and most have brown or black colouring. There is...

the flightless ratites (the emu and southern cassowary), megapodes (the malleefowl and Australian brush-turkey), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order...

wedge-tailed eagles may take Australian brush turkeys (Alectura lathami) and malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), quail, pigeons and doves, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars...

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)...

The town was home to the Malleefowl Preservation Group which operated until 2015. In 2007 the Yongergnow Australian Malleefowl Centre was opened. Yongergnow...