Red-billed Brush-turkey head
Red-billed Brush-turkey head
3D
Published 2017-03-03T16:30:59+00:00
The red-billed brushturkey (Talegalla cuvieri) also known as red-billed talegalla or Cuvier's brushturkey, is a large, up to 57 cm long, black megapode with bare yellow facial skin, a reddish orange bill, yellow iris, and orange feet. The head is covered with bristle-like black feathers. The sexes are similar.
An Indonesian endemic, the Red-billed Brushturkey inhabits to lowland forests on Vogelkop Peninsula, western Snow Mountains, and Misool Island of West Papua. It builds nest mound from sticks and leaves.
The scientific name commemorates the French zoologist Frédéric Cuvier.
The red-billed brushturkey is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Click on the following link to read about the "Mark my Bird" project: http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/955c0fd6-2b96-46ed-b6f9-9060100cf825.
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| Date published | 03/03/2017 |
| Time to do | 105 - 210 minutes |
| Material Quantity | 14 |
| Dimensions | 56×65×91 |
| Technology | FDM |
| Complexity | Medium |
| Title | Red-billed Brush-turkey head |
| Accession | 1911.12.20.3 |
| Credit | Gavin H. Thomas (University of Sheffield & Natural History Museum, London); Jen A. Bright (University of South Florida); Chris R. Cooney (University of Sheffield) et al. (2016). Dataset: Mark My Bird. |
| Record | http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/markmybird/resource/fabdb772-ef81-4a35-8c0b-e15127c5b2c4/record/26 |
| Place | Natural History Museum |
