The Australian brushturkey is a wonderful feathery weirdo. And this one tried to steal my toast. We had long conversations about the errors of its ways.

Brushturkeys are one of the species of birds who incubate their eggs in huge mounds of plant material, that they then tend to keep the temperature in the mound perfect for the eggs. When you watch one constantly adding and taking away stuff, you wonder if it wouldn't be MUCH less stressful to just sit on the eggs.

The yellow sack at their necks also inflates when they get excited, like the dangly nose thing of American turkeys (forgot what it is called).

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