The Life of Animals | Australia Brush Turkey | This is a spectacular large bird with black feathers and a red head. The The subspecies A. l. purpureicollis northern Cape York Peninsula is smaller than the most widespread nominate subspecies. Acacia male is much higher during the breeding season, often swinging from side to side as they run. Male heads and wattles also much brighter during the breeding and nesting. Brush the turkey flies very clumsily with heavy blows when it is scared and rusting in trees at night and the heat of the day.
Brushturkeys are common birds, and have communal nests. A typically consists of a dominant male, one or more young males and several females. They build large nests on the ground, made of leaves and other combustible materials from the earth, from 1 to 1.5 meters high and 4 meters in diameter. The eggs are hatched by the heat of the composting mound which normally only men who regulate the temperature by adding or removing material in an attempt to keep the temperature of the hill in the range of 33-35 ° C to maintain incubation. The Australian Brush Turkey controls the temperature by stabbing its beak into the hill.
The average clutch of eggs is between 16 and 24 large white eggs, which are scheduled from September to March. Brush-turkey eggs are a favorite food of lizards, snakes, dingoes and dogs, and were once a staple of Indigenous Australians. Often goannas exhibit wounds on their tails are pecked by Brush-turkey wildly from their nests. They feed on small animals. The Australian Brush-turkey inhabits rainforests and sclerophyll forests, but can also be found in dry areas scrubs.
Brush-turkey feed on insects, seeds and fallen fruits, which are exposed by raking the leaves or breaking open rotten logs with their large feet. Most of the food derived from the soil, from time to time with birds observed feeding mature fruit trees. The Australian Brush-turkey can sometimes damage gardens by raking the soil in search of food.
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