G’day Anthea
People under the age of 60 don’t use the term brush to describe native vegetation in Queensland (I suspect the term brush is an antique term used by southern colonists). The megapodes in SEQ have always been Bush Turkeys in my lexicon and I will continue to
drop the redundant r when I refer to them.
Regards, Laurie
> On 25 Feb 2019, at 7:57 pm, Anthea Fleming <> wrote:
>
> Hi Laurie,
> I have seen a domestic Turkey hen dust bathing - don't recall if she dug a hole or not.
> Bush turkey - do you mean the Brush Turkey, the megapode with yellow or purple wattle round its neck, or what my grandfather called a Bush Turkey or Plains Turkey, i.e. Bustard?
> I have no idea if either dust-bathes. If i remember I might look up HANZAB.
> As a member of the WA Geological Survey, 1910 to 1935, Grandpa ate a lot of Bustards. They were a very welcome change from a diet of tinned bully beef.
>
> Anthea fleming
>
>
> n 25/02/2019 8:09 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
>> G’day
>>
>> I’ve been coming across some odd holes in the bush tracks in my neighbourhood. They are about 30 cm across and 15 cm deep [not your average bandicoot or pig excavation].
>>
>> I came across a female looking bush turkey sitting in a fresh hole, dug about 100 metres from the nearest active mound. It looked rather dusty, and I suspect it was dusting. Is this a common turkey behaviour?
>>
>> Regards, Laurie.
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