Orange Footed Scrub Fowl

Description:

The Orange-footed Scrub Fowl is a large fowl with a small head. It has a short crest and bare patch of yellow skin round the eye. The legs and feet are orange.

Habitat:

Rainforest, scrub, sometimes mangroves

Notes:

Food: insects, soil invertebrates, seeds, fruit Breeding: The Orange-footed Scrub Fowl builds a large mound of earth and plant matter that can measure several metres in diameter and over a metre high. Yellowish white or pale pink eggs are laid in the mound individually.