mallee fowl

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mallee fowl (plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)

  1. An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401:
      He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs […].

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