DSC_1899 Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt castanonotus) as with other megapodes, it nests in large mounds of sand, leaf litter and other debris where the heat generated by the decomposition of organic material serves to incubate the eggs. Five subspecies are found across northern Australia, southern New Guinea and many islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Kuranda, Queensland
11001-39701 Plumed whistling duck (Dendrocygna eytoni) pair. A rare vagrant with fewer than a dozen records since 1871. They mainly turn up in small groups of less than ten birds. However, when they do arrive, they tend to remain for some time, and may remain for several years. Anderson Park, Hawkes Bay *
11001-44506 Australian pink-eared duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) an extremely rare vagrant with a single record, from Mangere, Auckland in 1990. This is the nearest relative to the extinct Scarlett's duck (Malacorhynchus scarletti) which lived in New Zealand and the Chathams during the Holocene period *
