brush turkey
Britishnoun
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The birds look like turkeys, and one of the species is called the "brush turkey," but they are no bigger than an ordinary chicken—than a rather small chicken, in fact.
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They based their paper on the observation of day-old Australian brush turkey chicks.
From New York Times
The brush turkey of Australia is strange in that it does not take its family duties at all seriously.
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The brush turkey scratches together a huge mound of sticks and leaves, four feet by ten or twelve wide at the base.
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Kangaroos and wallabies are very frequent; several brush turkeys were seen, and the partridge and bronze-winged pigeons are very plentiful.
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