Megapode

I come gladly to the conclusion that the megapode is a sagacious bird, not only in the avoidance of the dismal duty of incubation, but in respect of the making of those great mounds of decaying vegetable matter and earth which perform the function so effectively. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The bird we came across was called a megapode, and it has a very similar outlook on life. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1990)

Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He ate out of a sense of necessity and duty, and cared little for what he ate, save for one thing: the eggs of the megapodes that were, in season, laid in his private, personal, strictly tabooed megapode laying-yard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The megapode, with no sense of fear, is so silly that it would have been annihilated hundreds of centuries before had it not been preserved by the taboos of the chiefs and priests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In truth, he cared no more for megapode meat than for any other meat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

During the season, he lived almost entirely on megapode eggs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wherefore, he alone of all Somo, barred rigidly by taboo, ate megapode eggs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Australian brush turkey is a megapode in the family Megapodiidae. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are 22 species of megapodes scattered across the Australo-Pacific region, with three (the brush turkey, the malleefowl and the orange-footed megapode) native to Australia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One very unbirdlike thing that all species of megapode do is to bury their eggs and allow an external heat source to incubate them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But unlike some species of megapode, the brush turkey is highly promiscuous. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The name 'megapode,' meaning 'big foot,' refers to the long, raking-friendly toes characteristic of the birds in this family. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In ornithological parlance, megapode chicks are 'highly precocial,' which is to say that they are mind-bogglingly talented and well developed when they hatch. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Endemism is significant at the level of individual islands; Sulawesi has the largest fauna, with 356 species, including 96 endemics, among them the maleo (Macrocephalon maleo, EN), a distinctive megapode currently thought to number between 4,000 and 7,000 breeding pairs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It also provides habitat for the endangered Marianas megapode (Megapodius laperouse laperouse), and the skink Emoia slevini, which was formerly known only from Guam, Rota, and Tinian. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All other species of megapode in Polynesia have been extirpated, and the nearest extant species is in Vanuatu, 1,600 km west. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wildlife exploitation threatens the edible-nest swiftlet in the Nicobars, the Nicobar megapode, crocodiles, and sea turtles. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Dozens] and [dozens] of dolphins, all [leaping] and diving their way to new feeding grounds are a megapod. ❋ Hanseatic (2014)

It takes him exactly three hours and forty-seven minutes to [detect] anything [out of the ordinary], to which he will always [respond] 'Holy Megapode!' ❋ TimeBaum (2011)