Orange-Footed Scrubfowl

The really interesting thing about the megapodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapode) is that they build huge mounds in which to incubate their eggs.

Ha! It reminds me of being in Costa Rica. All the English names for birds are so ridiculously specific, but a lot of the Costa Rican names are basically just mimics of bird calls.

Michael, you have to see the feet, they really are orange. That said, Europeans sucked at naming Australian fauna. They were either clinically descriptive, like Yellow-tailed black cockatoo, or simple appropriated the name of a European animal that looked similar, like "robin", even though the two are not at all related.

What a name!

Excellent photo. I saw a few in Queensland, and even more impressively, one of their mounds.