megapode

megapode
1. noun
Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.
Syn: brush-turkey, incubator bird, mound-builder, scrubfowl
Characteristic of the Megapodiidae

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