Mound-builders: Mallee fowl, Brush turkeys and Scrubfowl.

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008.
Octavo, paperback, 120 pp. colour photographs, other illustrations.

WAS $40. Megapodes occur only in Australia, Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, Sulawesi and Halmahera. Within this family there are 22 species of mound-builders, three of which occur in Australia: the Scrubfowl, Brush turkey and the Malleefowl. This book gives a detailed comparison of the three Australian species. This book also discusses the adaptation of mound building to incubate eggs and shows how this adaptation influences every part of these birds' lives, including development of the embryo, the precocial life of hatchlings, their social organisation and their survival. Australian Natural History Series.

Author Information
Darryl Jones has been studying mound-building birds for 30 years, and has observed them in the wild throughout Australia and in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. He is a co-founder of the Megapode Specialist Group, affiliated with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and is one of the authors of the authoritative monograph The Megapodes. He is especially interested in their behavioural ecology and is currently investigating the unexpectedly successful invasion of Australian Brush-turkeys into suburbia.

Originally from Austria, Dr. Ann Göth first worked on megapode birds in Tonga, and then conducted her PhD studies on the Australian brush-turkey at Griffith University in Brisbane. She continued to work on these birds while at Macquarie University in Sydney. Today, she works for the Department of Environment and Climate Change in Sydney.