1. Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
   "The mallee fowl carefully maintained the temperature of its nesting mound";
   - leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata

Derived forms: mallee fowl

Type of: megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl

Part of: genus Leipoa

Encyclopedia: Mallee fowl