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- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
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- Eulipoa wallacei
- taxon name
- Eulipoa wallacei
- taxon common name
- molučka kokošina
- endemic to
- Maluku Islands
- short name
- E. wallacei
- habitat
- forest
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Encyclopedic overview
The Moluccan megapode (Eulipoa wallacei), also known as Wallace's scrubfowl, Moluccan scrubfowl or painted megapode, is a small, approximately 31 cm long, olive-brown megapode. The genus Eulipoa is monotypic, but the Moluccan megapode is sometimes placed in Megapodius instead. Both sexes are similar with an olive-brown plumage, bluish-grey below, white undertail coverts, brown iris, bare pink facial skin, bluish-yellow bill and dark olive legs. There are light grey stripes on reddish-maroon feathers on its back. The young has brownish plumage, a black bill, legs and hazel iris.
Juvenile
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moluccan Scrubfowl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.