Red-billed Brush-turkey

Red-billed Brush-turkey

Taxobox
name = Red-billed Brush-turkey
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Megapodiidae
genus = "Talegalla"
species = "T. cuvieri"
binomial = "Talegalla cuvieri"
binomial_authority = Lesson, 1828The Red-billed Brush-turkey, "Talegalla cuvieri", also known as Red-billed Talegalla or Cuvier's Brush-turkey, is a large, up to 57cm long, black megapode with bare yellow facial skin, a reddish orange bill, yellow iris, and orange feet. The head is covered with bristle-like black feathers. Both sexes are similar.

An Indonesian endemic, the Red-billed Brush-turkey inhabits to lowland forests on Vogelkop Peninsula, western Snow Mountains, and Misool Island of West Papua. It builds nest mound from sticks and leaves.

The scientific name commemorates the French zoologist Frédéric Cuvier.

The Red-billed Brush-turkey is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=113&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=46985 IUCN Red List]


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