Australian Brushturkey

This large, dark megapode is common in rainforest, woodland and increasingly suburban gardens along Australia's east coast, and is best known for the enormous leaf-litter mounds males build and tend to incubate eggs using heat from decomposition rather than body warmth. Birds spend most of their time on the ground, scratching through leaf litter for invertebrates and fallen fruit, and are readily seen and heard scuffling through undergrowth by day. Breeding mounds, most active from spring through summer, are a striking sight where a male can often be watched raking material for long periods.