Australian Brush-Turkey - Alectura lathami

The Australian Brush-turkey can sometimes damage gardens when raking up the ground looking for food. Their chicks hatch fully feathered and can fly within a few hours.
The Australian Brush-turkey has mainly blackish plumage with pale scalloping on its underparts, a bare red head, yellow throat wattle (mauve in Cape York Peninsula birds) and laterally flattened tail. It has large, strong feet.
At 70 cm in length, and weighing around 2.3kg, it is the largest of Australia’s three megapodes (mound-building birds).
The Australian Brush-turkey is not easily confused with any other Australian bird. The Australian Brush-turkey is a large, ground-dwelling bird with black-brown plumage, a bald, red head and a yellow neck pouch (or wattle). (Text Source: BirdLife Australia)

My passion is wildlife photography, and I hope I can bring the beauty of nature into your home and show how amazing nature is. Every single animal needs our protection, as they all play an important part in our survival. There is an abundance of scientific reports telling us that the rate of extinction is alarming. More and more fauna and flora are going to disappear. With my wildlife photography, I hope to showcase a fraction of animals before they are gone. Only what you know, you will love and protect…

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Seventh image from #Brisbane #WeekendWander - the #BushTurkey #Bird turns around, and retraces his steps, patrolling his solitudinous #ArchitecturePhotography domain, zoomed out to 14mm with highlight-weighted metering on #Nikon #D850.

Sixth image from #Brisbane #Photography #WeekendWander - #BushTurkey wandering his solitudinous domain. Again, highlight-weighted metering on #Nikon #D850.

Met the bike inspector at a park.
#biketooter #birds #wildlife #bushturkey

also these guys pop up everywhere in Sydney's leafy suburbs #bushturkey

Strolling through #StranfordValley
#BushTurkey Branched Platform & Tree climbing frame.

This morning, a scrub turkey broke in to my house, knocked shit everywhere in my kitchen, destroyed the guaze in the bathroom window and shat everywhere in my hall, including up the side of the walls.

It's a good thing I love birds, because that bird tested me...

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