Species profile—Alectura lathami (Australian brush-turkey)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Megapodiidae (mound-builders) → Alectura lathami (Australian brush-turkey)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Megapodiidae (mound-builders)
- Scientific name
- Alectura lathami Gray, 1831
- Common name
- Australian brush-turkey
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1694
- Alternate name(s)
- scrub turkey
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Agricultural Pest
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1694
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.