The Brush-turkey is in the megapode (‘big foot’) family, one of three Australian species – there are more in the Wallacean Island of eastern Indonesia and New Guinea and a few elsewhere.
Megapodes don’t build nests. Instead, they rely on natural heat to incubate their eggs.
In all three Australian species, they do so by scratching up a large mound of leaves and soil (metres across, sometimes metres high) which, like compost, heats up when it becomes moist.
The Australian Brush-turkey lives in rainforests and nearby habitats including towns in north-eastern and central-eastern Australia.