The Biak scrubfowl or Biak megapode (''Megapodius geelvinkianus'') is a species of

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in the family Megapodiidae. It is found only on the islands of

Biak Biak is an island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua, an Indonesian province, and is just northwest of New Guinea. Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and corals. The large ...

, Mios Korwar, Numfor,

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and Mios Num in the West Papua region of

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Description

This bird measures long. Its plumage is largely dark grey. It has a slight crest and a reddish or bluish face. Legs are red or dark grey.

Habitat

Its natural

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s are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, disco ...

and

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. It is threatened by

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. Some taxonomists consider this to be a subspecies of the dusky megapode, others as a subspecies of the orange-footed scrubfowl, but is increasingly looked at as a distinct species.

References

External links

* * Biak scrubfowl Birds of the Schouten Islands Biak scrubfowl Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Galliformes-stub