DSC_2192 Australian brush-turkey (Alectura lathami) dominant male with large yellow wattle. A common, widespread species of megapode, or mound-building bird, found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to the south coast of New South Wales. Kuranda National Park,Queensland *
DSC_2534 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
DSC_1895 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
