Megapodes (Megapodiidae)
Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) - HBW 2, p. 305
French: Mégapode maléo
German: Hammerhuhn
Spanish: Talégalo Maleo
Other common names: Maleofowl, Gray's Brush-turkey
Taxonomy: Macrocephalon maleo S. Müller, 1846, Sulawesi.
Alternative genus name, Megacephalon, obsolete. Monotypic.
Distribution: N, C & SE Sulawesi; probably also Buton (Butung) I, off SE Sulawesi. Populations, probably introduced, formerly occurred off NE Sulawesi on Lembeh and perhaps Bangka, and also on several of Sangihe Is.
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An egg inside a mount Locality Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Luc Fazio 15 August 1997 4 years ago 7 sec 4.1 -
A presumed female perched on a branch, perhaps planning to lay her eggs in a mound. Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 8 August 2009 48 weeks ago 31 sec 3.8 -
An adult bird in a distant branch Locality Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Luc Fazio 15 August 1997 4 years ago 32 sec 3.7 -
A newly hatched chick in the hand. Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 8 August 2009 48 weeks ago 15 sec 3.7 -
Two distant birds on a branch Locality Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
John Gregory 1998 4 years ago 36 sec 3.7 -
Several birds kept in captivity by the Maleo conservation project Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 5 August 2007 4 years ago 41 sec 3.5
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Close-up of a male bird
Locality Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta, Jakarta, Java (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Johannes Pfleiderer 26 August 2008 1 year ago 3.3 -
A distant adult late in the afternoon.
Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 11 October 2011 22 weeks ago 3.2 -
Young chick hatched that same day, in a hatchery
Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi
Peter Waanders 17 May 2010 2 years ago 2.5 -
Male in a tree
Locality Tambun, Dumoga Bone (Bogani Nani Wartabone) National Park, North Sulawesi, Sulawesi
Peter Waanders 17 May 2010 2 years ago 2.4 -
Captive individual, resting
Locality Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta, Jakarta, Java (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Pierre de Chabannes 1 December 2005 2 years ago 0
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