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	Turkey (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wild turkey track, Georgetown, SC Several other birds which are sometimes called "turkeys" are not particularly closely related: the Australian brush-turkey is a megapode, and the bird sometimes known as the "Australian turkey" is in fact the Australian bustard, a gruiform.
		In particular, the chest tuft of domestic turkeys is a clear indicator of descent from the Wild Turkey, as the Ocellated Turkey does not have this tuft.
		With their wingspans of 1.5-1.8 metres, the turkeys are by far the largest birds in the open forests in which they live, and are rarely mistaken for any other species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkey_(bird) (635 words)

	Traveling Scene Newsletter: Page 3
		The Australian Brush Turkey, or Alectura lathami is an Australian native bird that lives in humid forests along the Australian eastern seaboard and is most often observed in rainforests from Cape York Peninsula to as far south as Sydney.
		In the damp warm forests that is favoured by the Brush Turkey the mound rapidly ferments.
		The Brush Turkeys mound is in use for many years and is added to each breeding season, which is between August and December.
	www.travelingscene.com /archives/nov2000/page3.html (638 words)

	Australian brush turkey
		Brush turkeys are part of Australia's natural heritage, and many householders now accept these birds as a fascinating part of their backyard environment.
		The brush turkey may be attracted towards the area, and may eventually take over the compost mound as its nesting mound.
		Many people consider brush turkeys to be destructive in carefully planned gardens, since they remove vegetation, earth and mulch to create their incubation mounds.
	www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/Australian+brush+turkey (664 words)

	Auk, The: Unusual timing of copulations in the Australian Brush-turkey
		Australian Brush-turkeys (family Megapodiidae) are endemic to forests of eastern Australia (Jones and Birks 1992, Jones et al.
		Here, I present results of a study of Australian Brush-turkeys in which I: (1) describe copulation behavior, with information on the timing, frequency, and type of copulations; and (2) discuss possible reasons for the unusual timing of solicited and forced copulations within the context of potentially conflicting male and female interests.
		Thus, it was surprising to find that in Australian Brush-turkeys (Alectura lathami), most within-pair copulations (61.2%) occurred less than 1 h before laying, typically providing only 25 to 40 min for sperm to reach storage organs before potentially being flushed out by the descending egg.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199901/ai_n8828770 (1511 words)

	Dr. Heather Proctor, University of Alberta
		Proctor, H.C. and Jones, D.N. Geographical structuring of feather mite assemblages from the Australian brush-turkey (Aves: Megapodiidae).
		Pecking preferences in hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami (Megapodiidae): the role of food type and colour.
		Of spates and species: responses by interstitial water mites to simulated spates in a subtropical Australian river.
	www.biology.ualberta.ca /faculty/heather_proctor?Pubs=Yes (1111 words)

	! Australian Brush-turkey ! North Queensland, Australia.
		The booming of the male Australian brush turkey - made by inflating the wattle (skin of its neck) with air - is used not only in aggressive male-to-male encounters but also to advertise the location of his mound to potentially visiting females.
		The Australian Brush-turkey is one of three megapodes in Australia.
		Brush Turkey females may lay up to three times their own weight in eggs in one breeding season (May-February), but this varies; none may be laid in bad years.
	rainforest-australia.com /brush-turkey.html (563 words)

	Mound-builders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Göth, A., and Evans, C. Social responses without early experience: Australian brush-turkey chicks use specific visual cues to aggregate with conspecifics.
		Malleefowl, Leipoa ocellata, the Malleefowl of the semi-arid Australian outback.
		This page was last modified 13:00, 9 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mound-builders (421 words)

	Animal Portal - Australian Brush Turkey
		The Australian Brush-turkey is up to 70 cm in length, with a mainly black body plumage, bare read head, yellow throat wattle (pale blue in northern birds) and laterally flattened tail.
		The smaller (45 cm) Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Megapodius freycinet, which shares part of the Australian Brush Turkey's northern range, is entirely dark grey to brown, with the exception of bright orange legs and feet.
		In the northern part of its range, the Australian Brush-turkey is most common at higher altitudes, but individuals move to the lowland areas in winter months.
	www.animalport.com /animals/Australian-Brush-Turkey.html (445 words)

	2001 Queensland Term Postcards
		The Australian Brush-turkey is a common sight in and around Brisbane and throughout eastern Queensland.
		This bird lives in a large area of the Australian mainland, only being absent from the arid interior, the far southeast and the south coast.
		Their brush tongues permit them to feed on pollen and nectar.
	people.hws.edu /mitchell/cards01/UQFloraFauna.html (454 words)

	Turkey Hunting
		Turkeys were mainly bred for their beautifully coloured plumage until about 1935, after which the breeding emphasis changed to their meat qualities.
		Other distinguishing features of the common turkey are a long red fleshy ornament (called a snood) that grows from the forehead over the bill; a fleshy wattle growing from the throat; a tuft of coarse, black, hair like feathers (known as a beard) projecting from the breast; and more or less prominent leg spurs.
		Turkey production has thus tended to be seasonal, though in the United States and some other countries, ready-to-cook, lean, boned turkey is available in rolls any time of the year.
	wildgamerecipes.org /turkeyhunting.html (2986 words)

	Psychology : Research
		Egg size in Australian brush-turkey Alectura lathami hatchlings predicts motor performance and postnatal weight gain.
		This study involves 10,000 Australian children and their families who will be assessed biennially over the next 6 years.
		The aim of LSAC is to provide a data base for the development of government policy initiatives to benefit Australian children and families.
	www.psy.mq.edu.au /research.htm (8155 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Australian Journal of Zoology
		Chicks of megapodes, including the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami, live independently, without parents to show them where and what to eat.
		Pecking preferences in hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami (Megapodiidae): the role of food type and colour
		Preference for these rather general characteristics may be adaptive considering that chicks can hatch in various habitats and different months of the year, making the types of food available at hatching unpredictable.
	www.publish.csiro.au /nid/90/paper/ZO01046.htm (298 words)

	M&A talk about the strange and wonderful Australian animals
		Echidnas are widely distributed throughout the Australian continent and Tasmania.
		The bird stands about 30 centimetres high and is the smallest and most abundant Australian owl (found in all woodland areas, from dense forest to desert).
		This form of social system is widespread among Australian birds and contributes to their high breeding success.
	www.beluba.com.au /ww3/australian_animals.htm (7803 words)

	Brush-turkey - EPA/QPWS
		The Australian brush-turkey is fully protected in Queensland and is considered common.
		Whether building nesting mounds or just scratching around, the Australian brush-turkey is a common resident of many rainforest national parks and an occasional visitor to suburban gardens.
		The brush-turkey is one of three Australian species of mound-building birds, or megapodes.
	www.epa.qld.gov.au /nature_conservation/wildlife/native_animals/living_with_wildlife/brushturkey (1306 words)

	Catalyst: Robo Chick - ABC TV Science
		While most birds learn the lessons of life directly from their parents, the Australian Brush Turkey never gets to meet mum and dad.
		It's a robotic brush turkey chick and it's pecking away at the cutting edge of research into the behaviour of these mysterious birds.
		Apparently, brush turkey chicks know these glowing patches are the sign of a friend.
	www.abc.net.au /catalyst/stories/s1325755.htm (1265 words)

	brush turkey
		Fed: brush turkey nests implicated in parasitic disease =2
		Fed: brush turkey nests implicated in parasitic disease
		Related content from HighBeam Research on: brush turkey
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0911214.html (154 words)

	Our World (Answers for Kids)
		The Australian brush turkey is an unusual bird.
		The brush turkey's eggs had to be kept at the correct temperature right from the time these birds first appeared on Earth, or there would be no brush turkeys alive today.
		Most other birds are either born naked, or have a coat of soft down, but brush turkey chicks are born with feathers, and can fly almost immediately.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v17/i2/kids.asp (1441 words)

	brush turkey facts
		Brush the turkey with melted butter, vegetable oil or margarine.
		The brush in these openings should be cut every one to three years,...
		Turkey facts and wild turkey information including territory and...
	www.getturkeyinfo.com /54/brush-turkey-facts.html (301 words)

	Hiking
		An Australian Brush turkey which we saw at the end of the trail.
		However, they can become very tame around picnic grounds and homes, particularly if they are fed. Feeding brush turkeys is not recommended.
		Wingham Brush Nature Reserve is a subtropical floodplain rainforest; typical of the lowland rainforest that once covered much of the Manning River floodplain.
	www.jerelis.com /id98.html (345 words)

	Science/AAAS Random Samples : 11 June 2004; 304 (5677)
		Such is the dilemma of the Australian brush turkey, which hatches buried in a warm mound of rotting leaf litter.
		To find out what visual cues a newly hatched chick uses, Göth and colleagues made remote-control brush turkey robots out of toy car motors and the skins of dead chicks.
		Females lay eggs in the compost, then leave the incubation up to the heat from the decomposition.
	www.sciencemag.org /content/vol304/issue5677/r-samples.dtl (1348 words)

	Scrub Turkey - Lamington National Park
		The Brush Turkey eats insects, native fruits and seeds, but has become very used to accepting handouts from campers.
		A distinctive feature of this animal is the large mound built by the male of the species.
		The best areas to see this bird are around the public places such as picnic grounds and the lodges.
	lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au /Documents/Birds/Scrub.htm (165 words)

	Australian birds
		The sunshine, scent of blossom, decorated hats of Crimson Rosellas and Australian King-Parrots, and breakfast with Regent Bowerbirds has been replaced by thick cloud, damp sticky mud and a couple of scraggly Brush Turkeys.
		And the well meaning weathered Australian couple who were knowledgeably delivering a natural history lesson to the assembly of visitors.
		June: New England N.P. Well, Mount Warning may be the first part of the Australian mainland to catch the morning sun, but it takes several hours for it to filter through to the Mebbin Recreation Area.
	www.isg.rhul.ac.uk /~martin/grandhtml.html (17241 words)

	Its A Matter Of Opinion » Blog Archive » Help! We are under siege.
		Brush turkey is limited to the rain forest areas.
		That has got to be the ugliest turkey I have ever seen.
		Most of the native Australian fauna species are protected.
	www.observationdeck.org /weblogs?p=384 (1012 words)

	Genetic Resources - Burke Museum
		Birks, S. Paternity in the Australian Brush-turkey, Alectura lathami, a megapode bird with uniparental male care.
		Ph.D., Animal Behavior, Cornell University, January 1996, thesis title: "Reproductive Behavior and Paternity in the Australian Brush-turkey, Alectura lathami"
		Birks, S. Reproductive Behavior and Paternity in the Australian Brush-turkey, Alectura lathami.
	www.washington.edu /burkemuseum/collections/genetic/cv.php (447 words)

	Birds That Make Compost
		Temperature regulation in the incubation mounds of the australian Brush-turkey.
		For more information on this clever bird, see this article:
	compost.css.cornell.edu /birds.html (264 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Wildlife Research
		Here, we present such results for chicks of the Australian brush-turkey (Alectura lathami), radio-tracked in two smallremnant rainforest patches (Mary Cairncross Rainforest Park and Aplin Forest) from their second day of life.
		Chick survival in the megapode Alectura lathami (Australian brush-turkey)
		On the basis of these results, we propose that management plans for endangered megapodes should include the identification and protection of large protective thicket habitats for enhancing overall chick survival, apart from controlling introduced predators such as feral cats.
	www.publish.csiro.au /nid/144/paper/WR01054.htm (276 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- September 2000, week 1 (#26)
		An AUSTRALIAN PELICAN swam off the beach at Seisia, unafraid of the Esturine Crocodiles that are supposed to be in the sea there.
		I wasn't very well prepared for the Australian leg of my trip and was amazed to see such a bird.
		July 20, three AUSTRALIAN BUSTARDS* fed near the road near Moreton and flew up after a minute or two.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0009a&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=2587 (688 words)

	Australia
		Australian Biodiversity Information Facility-Fauna with a hierarchical database for checklists of most of the animal kingdom for Australia.
	www.birdlist.org /australia.htm (750 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Wildlife Research
		Management plans for endangered megapodes should consider the role of thickets in the chicks' dispersal behaviour, and thus in population spread, recolonisation and gene flow.
		Dispersal and habitat selectivity of young precocial birds is usually determined by parents, as these lead their chicks after hatching.
		Chicks were radio-tracked in two small remnant rainforest patches (Mary Cairncross Rainforest Park and Aplin Forest) from their second day of life and for up to 30 days.
	www.publish.csiro.au /nid/144/paper/WR01053.htm (225 words)

	Brush Turkey - Alectura lathami
		By scratching up earth and decaying leaf matter with their powerful legs the male Brush Turkey builds huge incubation mounds which can be four metres in diameter and well over one metre high.
		The Brush Turkey is one of Australia's three "mound builders".
		Large goannas and feral pigs often raid the mounds stealing the eggs and disrupting the incubation temperature.
	www.anhs.com.au /brush_turkey.htm (221 words)

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