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mound-bird - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | ||
megapode, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl | ||
gallinacean, gallinaceous bird heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | ||
family megapodiidae, megapodiidae megapodes | ||
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 |