Moluccan Scrubfowl
Eulipoa wallacei
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The Moluccan megapode, also known as Wallace's scrubfowl, Moluccan scrubfowl or painted megapode, is a small, approximately 31 cm long, olive-brown megapode. The genus Eulipoa is monotypic, but the Moluccan megapode is sometimes placed in Megapodius instead. Both sexes are similar with an olive-brown plumage, bluish-grey below, white undertail coverts, brown iris, bare pink facial skin, bluish-yellow bill and dark olive legs. There are light grey stripes on reddish-maroon feathers on its back. The young has brownish plumage, a black bill, legs and hazel iris.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Megapodiidae
- Genus
- Eulipoa