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Aepypodius bruijnii (Waigeo Brushturkey)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Waigeo Brushturkey or Bruijn's Brushturkey, Aepypodius bruijnii, is a large (approximately 43 cm long) brownish-black megapode with a bare red facial skin, red comb, maroon rump and chestnut brown below. There are two elongated red wattles on the back of the head and a long wattle on the foreneck. Both sexes are similar. The female has a smaller comb and no wattles. An Indonesian endemic, Waigeo Brushturkey occurs in mountain forests on Waigeo Island of West Papua.
View Wikipedia Record: Aepypodius bruijnii

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Aepypodius bruijnii

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Vogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Waigeo Utara/Timur Indonesia  

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Citations

Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 23-Jan-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Endangered Status provided by IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2 <www.iucnredlist.org> Downloaded on 11 April 2013.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
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