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Moluccan Scrubfowl is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.
Vinony's link graph records 303 inbound references to Moluccan Scrubfowl, and connects out to megapode, Odontophoridae and Polyplectron.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1860, Endemic birds of the Maluku Islands and IUCN Red List vulnerable species.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon
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- PaintedMegapode.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Commons category
- 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.