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	megapode. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Also called mound birds and incubator birds, they are remarkable in that they do not brood their eggs, but rather deposit them in mounds of earth and leaves and allow them to be incubated by the heat from the sun and from rotting vegetable material.
		The megapodes are commonly divided into three groups: the generally dullish-colored jungle fowl of the New Guinea rain forest, the flish brush turkeys (e.g.
		Megapodes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Galliformes, family Megapodiidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/megapode.html (359 words)

	MEGAPODE - LoveToKnow Article on MEGAPODE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This bird bears a helmet-like protuberance on the back of its head, all of which, as well as the neck, is bare and of a bright red color; the plumage of the body is glossy fl above, and beneath roseate-white.
		Of the megapodes proper, constituting the genus Megapodius, about fifteen species are admitted.
		Megapodes are shy terrestrial birds, of heavy flight, and omnivorous diet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEGAPODE.htm (581 words)

	PI-Micronesian Megapode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Megapodes are sometimes called “incubator birds”; because they rely on solar energy, volcanic activity, or microbial decomposition as a heat source for incubation.
		Megapode chicks are precocial (feathered, able to walk, and able to regulate their body temperature) at hatching and the adults do not care for the young.
		The Micronesian Megapode was historically widespread throughout the Mariana Island chain but declined on all of the southern Mariana Islands (Guam, Rota, Aguiguan, Tinian, and Saipan) in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
	pacificislands.fws.gov /wesa/megapodeindex.html (738 words)

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		Megapodes are found less commonly toward the interior of the limestone islands, where they forage in the scattered pockets of soil among the jagged rocks and along the base of scarps.
		The presence of megapodes is often detected by scratch marks in soft soil or forest litter.
		Attributes of the megapode in favor of its survival include (1) the bird's willingness to exploit an array of habitats and (2) the ability of megapodes (possibly both chicks and adults) to cross between islands.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e101012.htm (5195 words)

	Development and behaviour of hatchlings of the Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami
		Megapode (Family Megapodiidae) hatchlings are the most precocial of all avian species.
		Due to their advanced stage of development at hatching, megapodes have been described as ‘superprecocial’, occupying one extreme of the altricial-precocial spectrum.
		The megapode is viewed as a ‘specialised’ galliform, having extended the phasianid incubation period and producing superprecocial hatchlings that have developed in the egg for a further four weeks.
	www4.gu.edu.au:8080 /adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030303.142139 (938 words)

	Critically endangered megapode back from brink?
		Watling’s visit to the remote island of Fonualei in the Kingdom of Tonga means that estimates of the megapode’s population have been doubled, with an estimated 300—500 on the island, possibly now surpassing the number found on its last native island, Niuafo’ou, where a 1993 survey had revealed a population of only 188—235 pairs.
		Watling’s visit to Fonualei, initiated by the IUCN Species Survival Commission/ BirdLife International/ WPA Megapode Specialist Group and funded by the Dutch Van Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Protection, is the first to gauge the progress of the translocated megapodes.
		Megapodes are remarkable in that they do not brood their eggs, but rather deposit them in mounds of earth and leaves and allow them to be incubated by the heat from the sun and from rotting vegetable material (or warm volcanic ash in the case of some species, including the Polynesian Megapode).
	www.birdlife.org /news/pr/2003/06/polynesian_meagpode.html (771 words)

	Auk, The: IS MONOGAMY IN THE POLYNESIAN MEGAPODE (MEGAPODIUS PRITCHARDII) RELATED TO ITS HIGH RELATIVE EGG-WEIGHT? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Polynesian Megapodes (Megapodius pritchardii) are burrow nesters and rely on geothermal heat for incubation.
		Megapodes leave incubation of their eggs to external heat sources: burrow nesters rely on geothermal heat in burrows on volcanic islands; mound nesters on heat produced by microbial decomposition of organic material in mounds of leaf litter.
		Megapodes must produce exceptionally large eggs to accommodate chicks that are much larger and further developed than those of other galliforms-megapode hatchlings weigh 2-15× more than other galliform chicks (Clark 1964b).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200404/ai_n9396915 (1329 words)

	IUCN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This Action Plan covers the megapodes, a group of Australasian ground-dwelling birds comprising 22 species found from the Nicobar Islands in the west, through Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia, to Polynesia in the east.
		The Megapode Specialist Group is pleased to report a large increase in the amount and quality of conservation work since production of the first Action Plan in 1995, but many species remain highly threatened and, in some cases, almost unknown in the wild.
		The Megapode Specialist Group will continue to do its best to stimulate follow up of this Action Plan and will be pleased to advise on its implementation.
	www.iucn.org /themes/ssc/pubs/megapode.htm (529 words)

	Hidden Colony Doubles Known Numbers of Rare South Pacific Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Laid in burrows or under mounds, megapode eggs are incubated by the warmth of the sun, rotting vegetation, or volcanic vents.
		The Polynesian megapode was once considered to be on the brink of extinction when ornithologists estimated the world population to be around 400.
		The megapodes bury their eggs in relatively isolated pockets, where the conditions are right for incubation, making them susceptible to humans and other predators.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/07/0715_030715_megapode.html (810 words)

	Polynesian Megapode back from the brink
		Watling’s visit to the remote island of Fonualei in the Kingdom of Tonga means that estimates of the megapode’s population have been doubled, with an estimated 300—500 birds on the island, possibly now surpassing the number found on its last native island, Niuafo’ou, where a 1993 survey had revealed a population of only 188—235 pairs.
		The bird is the smallest megapode in the world: birds that are so named because of their large feet and which are distinctive for requiring hot volcanic ash to incubate their eggs.
		The revelation vindicates the translocation of megapode eggs from Niuafo’ou to Fonualei in 1993/4 by Dr Dieter Rinke of the Brehm Fund for International Bird Conservation in Germany.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2003/06/polynesian_megapode.html (546 words)

	Agence France Presse English: Pacific's last megapode bird declared saved from extinction@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Pacific's last megapode -- a bird with large feet that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs -- has been rescued from the brink of extinction, London based BirdLife International said in a statement.
		Fiji ornithologist Dick Watling found Tonga's Polynesian Megapode or Malau (Megapodius pritchardii) has doubled its population and is now likely to be removed from the "critically endangered" list.
		Polynesian Megapodes were native to remote Niuafo'ou in Tonga but became critically endangered due to human harvesting of eggs and predation by...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:74711897&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (190 words)

	Behavioural Development of Megapodes - Literature
		Nice (1962) compared megapode chicks with young of other birds and stated that megapodes have the most precocial chicks of all birds.
		Micronesian Megapodes on the Mariana Islands and Palau
		Observations on the breeding biology of the Philippine Megapode (Megapodius cumingii) in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
	galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au /Megapode_project/readings.html (1427 words)

	gbwf.org, Megapodes - Aviculture & Conservation
		Megapodes resemble most of other members of the order, but it's their unique nesting and incubation technique that seperates this family from the others.
		Megapodes rely on building mounds of forest litter in which to bury their eggs and allow the heat from decomposition to incubate their eggs, others will lay their eggs in burrows and allow geothermal activity or solar radiation to incubate their eggs.
		Megapodes face the same threat as most galliformes, habitat loss and exploitation by man have placed several species as endangered.
	www.gbwf.org /megapodes (439 words)

	Solomon Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Macair of Papua New Guinea decided to buy off Megapode in 1968, they decided to change the airline's name to Solomon Islands Airways, although most of the public knew the airline by the acronymun of SOLAIR.
		Macair had bought Megapode after Megapode had gone from a charter airline, to a regular flights one.
		Under Macair, SOLAIR became the smallest international airline in the world, serving the city of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, with a total of two Doves and two Beech Barons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Airlines (606 words)

	Megapode mulls Hawker jet sale
		MEGAPODE Airlines, the closely-held aircraft-operating outfit floated by the Taj, its associates and other Tata companies, has plans to sell one of the two business jets that it operates.
		While Megapode has interest in acquiring new aircraft, in view of the prevailing market conditions, all such plans are on hold.
		Megapode owns its aircraft on a fractional basis, implying thereby that Tata companies who participated in asset purchase are entitled to subsidised flying hours.
	www.blonnet.com /2001/11/28/stories/022818yd.htm (515 words)

	News in Science - Pacific's last megapodes saved from extinction - 24/06/2003
		The Pacific's last megapode - a bird with large feet that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs - has been rescued from the brink of extinction, researchers said.
		Polynesian megapodes — also known as malau - were native to remote Niuafo'ou in Tonga, but became critically endangered due to human harvesting of eggs and predation by introduced animals.
		It is the only one of several species of megapode originally found in the southwest Pacific to have survived 3,000 years of human colonisation and predation, and is the smallest megapode in the world.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s886389.htm (453 words)

	megapode -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Megapodes are of three kinds: scrub fowl; brush turkeys (not true turkeys); and mallee fowl, or…
		The feet and claws are large in all families, particularly so in the megapodes, reflecting their use for scratching and digging.
		The Australian mound birds, also called megapodes or brush turkeys, still bury their eggs in piles of leaves.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051791?tocId=9051791 (530 words)

	Literature.org - The Online Literature Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The megapode, with no sense of fear, is so silly that it would have been annihilated hundreds of centuries before had it not been preserved by the taboos of the chiefs and priests.
		On rare occasion he even had megapodes that were near to finishing their laying killed for his kai-kai.
		Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating.
	www.literature.org /authors/london-jack/jerry-of-the-islands/chapter-16.html (3221 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Availability of Draft Recovery Plan for the Micronesian megapode (Megapodius laperouse ...
		Habitat loss and exotic predators, such as the brown tree snake, continue to be the greatest threats to the survival of the Micronesian megapode.
		The Micronesian megapode is currently represented by populations on ten islands with a total estimate of 1,000 to 1,500 birds.
		Further research on the reproductive ecology, territory size and habitat use, nesting requirements, demographics, and the impacts of predation and hunting is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the megapode.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1997/September/Day-25/e25423.htm (924 words)

	Two Turntables and a Megapode \| Grist Magazine \| Daily Grist \| 20 Jun 2003
		The population of the once desperately rare Polynesian Megapode has doubled and the bird could soon be removed from the list of critically endangered species maintained by the World Conservation Union.
		The species is the Pacific's last megapode -- a large-footed bird that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs.
		The successful rebound of the Polynesian Megapode is due to a concerted conservation effort begun in 1993.
	www.grist.org /news/daily/2003/06/20/turntables (217 words)

	Here Be Chickens - Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bird we came across was called a megapode, and it has a very similar outlook on life.
		The heat generated by the chemical reactions of the rotting vegetation keeps the eggs that are buried deep inside it warm and not merely warm.
		By judicious additions or subtractions of material from the mound the megapode is able to keep it at the precise temperature which the eggs require in order to incubate properly.
	www.tdv.com /lastchance/part4/bt.html (577 words)

	The Gods of Simbo - Feature Story -WWF Solomon Islands Country Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their soil is rich because of the volcanoes, their sea is brimming with fish and they are the keepers of a mysterious bird they call the Lape (Melanesia megapode) which lays an abundance of large, edible eggs.
		The Megapode Ordinance was first established in 1986 with the assistance of the western provincial government.
		The implication of the ordinance now gazetted as law is that the Simbo Megapode Management Committee has the power to prosecute whoever is found to be breaching the by-laws.
	www.wwfpacific.org.fj /solomons_featurestories.htm (1040 words)

	CNMI DFW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Megapodes (Megapodius laperouse) are slightly smaller than chickens and have long, yellow legs with fl claws.
		They have dark body plumage, yellow bills, and red areas around their eyes that are exposed areas of skin where their feathers are sparse.
		One Megapode will begin with the call and others in the near vicinity will answer.
	www.cnmidfw.org /wildlife/mega/mega1.html (112 words)

	Protected areas of the Pacific Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Questionnaire surveys were conducted by students from the University of Papua New Guinea during September 1989 to determine whether there was a widespread understanding of both the reasons for establishing the wildlife managment area and the rules concerning its management (King, 1990).
		Harvesting of eggs is prohibited in August to allow the megapode population to sustain itself.
		Results from questionnaire surveys in 1989 indicate that enforcement of the rules may be weak, that megapode egg collection may exceed sustainable limits and that outsiders are stealing eggs.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0282w.htm (878 words)

	Megapode captured on film for first time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, the reason for the visit to Ambryn was not primarily to photograph the megapode.
		The chicken-like birds are an easy target as they nest on the ground in volcanically heated areas, burying their eggs in volcanic ash, on beaches, or in decomposing vegetation such as around rotting trees.
		O'Brien and his two RSPB colleagues linked up with the Vanuatu Protected Areas Initiative, a local environment conservation organisation, contacted the local chief, and started a project to try to work out a way for the island people to still eat the birds’ eggs, but to make sure they are collected in a sustainable manner.
	www.birdlife.net /news/news/2003/12/vanuatu_megapode.html (455 words)

	IUCN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because of their dependence on megapode eggs and their concern about the declining harvest, in the early 1990s, Simbo Islanders introduced a management plan that included a ban on harvesting eggs for two months each year.
		This plan was based on a paucity of data on megapode breeding biology and the harvest continued to decline throughout the 1990s.
		WWF and the Megapode Specialist Group are continuing to work with Simbo Islanders to help them address these problems and achieve their stated aim of having "Lape Forever".
	www.iucn.org /themes/ssc/news/megapode.htm (368 words)

	Vanuatu Protected Areas Initiative
		The Megapode Conservation Programme is designed to secure a future for the Vanuatu Megapode on Ambrym and ensure local people will be able to continue to benefit from the collection of eggs in the years ahead.
		The Vanuatu Megapode bird Megapodius layardi is endemic to Vanuatu, officially classified as vulnerable by BirdLife International and highlighted as a priority species for conservation in the Megapode Action Plan 2000-2005.
		The population on Ambrym is widely believed to be one of the most significant anywhere and the evidence presented to VPAI by local people indicates that the population is in decline because of habitat loss and increasing levels of local exploitation.
	www.positiveearth.org /vpai/Megapode_Conservation_Programme_2002.htm (533 words)

	Niuafo'ou's unique bird - the Megapode
		It is also the smallest megapode in the world - megapode comes from the Greek word meaning 'big feet'.
		Megapodes mate for life and they love to sing in duet - the first two notes frequently being produced by the male while the female sings the third.
		These are free of cats and other predatory animals introduced by man. Megapodes are not very fussy about their food, eating anything in the insect world as well as small reptiles, worms, seeds and also small fruit.
	www.pabillingham.freeserve.co.uk /megapode.html (732 words)

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