Noun: mound bird mawnd burd
- Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
"The mound bird's unique nesting behaviour fascinated the ornithologists";
- megapode, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl
Type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
Part of: family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae
Encyclopedia: Mound bird