- Dusky Scrubfowl
Taxobox
name = Dusky Scrubfowl
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Galliformes
familia =Megapodiidae
genus = "Megapodius "
species = "M. freycinet"
binomial = "Megapodius freycinet"
binomial_authority = Gaimard, 1823The Dusky Scrubfowl, "Megapodius freycinet", is a medium-sized, up to 41cm long, blackmegapode with short pointed crest, bare red facial skin, dark legs, brown iris and yellow-tipped dark brown bill. Both sexes are similar.The Dusky Scrubfowl lives in the
wetlands ofNorth Maluku and West Papua islands. The nest mound is built from earth mixed with leaves, sand, gravel and sticks.The scientific name commemorates the French explorer
Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet .A common species throughout its range, the Dusky Scrubfowl is evaluated as Least Concern on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Valued as a food species, the Dusky Scrubfowl is known from archaeological evidence to have been overhunted and driven to local extinction on
Tikopia after the arrival of humans on the island in the ninth century BCE. [Kirch, Patrick Viinton, Tikopia; The History and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, 1982. p. 282 ]References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=121&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=46989 IUCN Red List]
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