megapode

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The atolls, reefs and underwater mountains of the designated area are the habitat of hundreds of unique species of birds and fish including the world's largest land crab and the rare Malaysian megapode, a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater volcanoes.

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  1. noun Any of various large-footed, ground-dwelling birds of the family Megapodiidae, found in Australia and many South Pacific islands, that build mounds or burrows of earth and compost in which to incubate their eggs. Also called moundbird, mound builder, scrub fowl.

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  • The atolls, reefs and underwater mountains of the designated area are the habitat of hundreds of unique species of birds and fish including the world's largest land crab and the rare Malaysian megapode, a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater volcanoes. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • There are four threatened species that could be affected by the removal project: the Mariana fruit bat, Mariana swiftlet, Micronesia megapode and Nightingale reed-warbler.
  • 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. —  Jerry of the Islands
  • In common with "Elia" (and others) the megapode has no ear for music. —  Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • The megapode seems to delight in flying in the face of laws to which ordinary fowls are obedient. —  Confessions of a Beachcomber
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  1. From Megapodius, type genus : mega- + New Latin -podius, masculine of -podium, -pod.
 

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