Australian Brush or bush turkey pair at nest mound Stock Photo Alamy

Brush Turkey Male Vs Female. Australian Brushturkey, Brisbane, Australia Male bird, Bird, Beautiful birds They grow fast, and within a few months a chick will have the dull blue-black plumage and the characteristic. The male's job in life is to build a compost heap that will attract as many females as possible.

The male Brush Turkey attentively scratches holes in the mound and sticks his head in Male brushturkeys spend time scraping away at the forest floor with their massive feet, building up a pile of plant matter up to 4 meters high and 2 meters wide.

Australian Brushturkey The Australian Museum

They grow fast, and within a few months a chick will have the dull blue-black plumage and the characteristic. the female brushturkey lays between 18 and 24 eggs in the mound, one egg every two or three days The Australian brushturkey, Australian brush-turkey, or gweela (Alectura lathami), also frequently called the scrub turkey or bush turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Eurobodalla on the South Coast of New South Wales.The Australian brushturkey has also been introduced to Kangaroo.

Australian Brushturkey The Australian Museum. Enables the Brush-turkey to blend in with shade and vegetation in its forest habitat (Jones and Göth 2008) Some feathers have white tipping (Jones et al Figuring out if baby turkeys are male or female can be done using a method called vent sexing

Australian Brushturkey San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants. The male's job in life is to build a compost heap that will attract as many females as possible. The optimum incubation temperature is approximately 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius), which the male brush turkey maintains by removing and adding layers to the mound