mallee fowl

mallee fowl

n (Animals) an Australian megapode, Leipoa ocellata, that allows its eggs to incubate naturally in a sandy mound

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mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy moundsleipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowanmegapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl, mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggsgenus Leipoa - mallee fowlmallee hen - adult female mallee fowl