The Waigeo brushturkey (''Aepypodius bruijnii'') or Bruijn's brushturkey, is a large (approximately 43 cm long) brownish-black

megapode The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means "large foot" and is a reference to the heavy legs ...

with a bare red facial skin, red comb, maroon rump and chestnut brown below. There are two elongated red wattles on the back of the head and a long wattle on the foreneck. Both sexes are similar. The female has a smaller comb and no wattles. An

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, the Waigeo brushturkey inhabits mountain forests on

Waigeo Waigeo is an island in Southwest Papua province of eastern Indonesia. The island is also known as Amberi, or Waigiu. It is the largest of the four main islands in the Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera and about to the north-w ...

Island of West Papua. Previously known from less than twenty-five specimens, this little-known species was relocated in 2002. The name commemorates the

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merchant Anton August Bruijn. This bird is threatened by hunting, ongoing habitat loss, small population size and a limited range. It was formerly classified as a

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by the

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. But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed. Consequently, it was uplisted to

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status in 2008.BLI (2008)

References

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(BLI) (2008)
[2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]
Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.

External links

* [http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=26 Red Data Book] {{Taxonbar, from=Q1262276 Aepypodius, Waigeo brushturkey Birds of the Raja Ampat Islands Birds described in 1880, Waigeo brushturkey Taxa named by Émile Oustalet