What's the difference between megapode and scrubfowl?

Megapode


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both this and the scrubfowl are megapodes (which literally means ‘big feet’), whose hard-working males build a huge mound out of leaves and earth where the female lays her eggs, which are incubated by the heat provided by the rotting vegetation.
  • (2) Artificial incubation is also practised by birds belonging to the family of the Megapodes: the Brush Turkey and the Mallee Fowl build a mound and maintain the required temperature of the eggs laid in it.

Scrubfowl


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both this and the scrubfowl are megapodes (which literally means ‘big feet’), whose hard-working males build a huge mound out of leaves and earth where the female lays her eggs, which are incubated by the heat provided by the rotting vegetation.
  • (2) First, a dark brown bird about the size of a plump chicken dashes out on the path in front of me: an Orange-footed Scrubfowl .

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