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Species
Least ConcernOrange-footed Scrubfowl
species
Observations3,125
via IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Megapodius reinwardt
- taxon name
- Megapodius reinwardt
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- Megapodius reinwardt
- taxon common name
- frango-do-mato-de-pés-laranja
- endemic to
- Australia
- litter size
- 5.5
- taxon synonym
- New Guinea Scrubfowl
- short name
- M. reinwardt
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Encyclopedic overview
The orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt), also known as orange-footed megapode or just scrubfowl, is a small megapode of the family Megapodiidae native to many islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as southern New Guinea and northern Australia.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orange-footed Scrubfowl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.