scrub fowl

1. Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia;
   Build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs (synset 101803729)
   is a type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds
   subtypes:

   • leipoa, leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
   • alectura lathami, brush turkey - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
   • macrocephalon maleo, maleo - Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches
   belongs to: family megapodiidae, megapodiidae - megapodes
   same as: megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird

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