Turkey dust bathing

[Francis Crome <>]

Brush is a perfectly ordinary term in common use globally which is often used 
to mean low shrubland, but is actually short to tall treed (FAO defintion any 
woody plant over 2 m high) vegegation with more or less dense undergrowth. In 
reference to rainforest types of vegetation in Australia one tends to get 
carried away with the tall open cathedral concept which is quite rare. Brush 
adequately describes the drier deciduous rainforest (technically vine thickets) 
common in southern Queensland and prime home of brush turkeys and 
black-breasted quail. It can also describe thick shrubby edges to forest (hence 
brush fires). Some of us may have brush box or brush cypress pine floors.

It is not an archaic term.

What mystifies me is how tall forest ever became known as scrub as it is to 
Queenslanders .

 
Francis Crome

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> On 26 Feb 2019, at 09:24, Graeme Stevens <> wrote:
> 
> Well the most current Australian Bird Guide uses Brush-turkey and in the 
> interests of a standard approach to common names and the avoidance of 
> regional or personal variation the work of:
> Menkhorst, Rogers, Clarke, Davies, Marsack and Franklin is good enough for me.
> 
> Graeme Stevens 
> 
> From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Laurie 
> Knight <>
> Sent: Monday, 25 February 2019 10:29 PM
> To: Anthea Fleming
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Turkey dust bathing
>  
> 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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