Male and female Orange-footed
Scrubfowl form
permanent pair bonds. Both birds work at building very large incubation mounds
of decaying vegetable matter. Heat generated by the decaying humus provides the
heat source for the incubation of their eggs. No parental care is provided
for the newly hatched chicks who look after themselves entirely and are capable of flight shortly after digging
themselves out of the incubation mound.
Pairs are highly territorial and
will vigorously defend their territory
against intruding neighbours.
Disturbance of the mounds by
feral pigs in search of eggs is cause for great concern.
Size
40 Centimetres.
Nest
Huge mounds of leaves and soil up to 12 metres across and 3.5 metres
high.
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by David & Diane Armbrust
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