Mound-builders (W)
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Mound-builders
The Megapodius, commonly mound-builders, incubator birds or megapodes, are stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet. They avoid flying unless pressed and spend most of their time on the ground. All but the Malleefowl occupy jungle habitats, and most are brown or black coloured.
- Scrubfowl group: Megapodius (11 species) and Macrocephalon (1 species).
- Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo)
- Moluccan Scrubfowl (Megapodius wallacei)
- Polynesian Scrubfowl (Megapodius pritchardii)
- Micronesian Scrubfowl (Megapodius laperouse)
- Nicobar Scrubfowl (Megapodius nicobariensis)
- Philippine Scrubfowl (Megapodius cumingii)
- Sula Scrubfowl (Megapodius bernsteinii)
- Dusky Scrubfowl (Megapodius freycinet)
- Melanesian Scrubfowl (Megapodius eremita)
- Vanuatu Scrubfowl (Megapodius layardi)
- New Guinea Scrubfowl (Megapodius affinis)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl Megapodius reinwardt)
- Malleefowl group
- Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata, the Malleefowl of the semi-arid Australian outback.
- Brush-turkey group: Alectura (1 species), Aepygodus (2 species) and Talegalla (3 species).
- Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami)
- Wattled Brush-turkey (Aepypodius arfakianus)
- Bruijn's Brush-turkey (Aepypodius bruijnii)
- Red-billed Brush-turkey (Talegalla cuvieri)
- Black-billed Brush-turkey (Talegalla fuscirostris)
- Brown-collared Brush-turkey (Talegalla jobiensis)

