Megapode
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The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means "lar
Australian brushturkey female Atherton
Brushturkeys can often be found in parks or gardens.
Australian brushturkey on its mound
Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. They are normally nidifugous, meaning that they leave the nes
Megapode
…of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all except the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are brown or black in color. Megapodes are superprecocial, hatching from their eggs in the most mature condition of any bird. They hatch with open eyes, bodily coordination and strength, full wing feathers…
A young chick stands up. Chickens are precocial birds and can stand shortly after hatching.
Altricial young birds
California quail chick (Callipepla californica), a precocial chick
A foal and its mother, a precocial mammal.