Endangered
Waigeo Brush-turkey
Aepypodius bruijnii
The Waigeo brushturkey or Bruijn's brushturkey, is a large (approximately 43 cm long) brownish-black megapode with a bare red facial skin, red comb, maroon rump, and chestnut brown below.
Appearance
The Waigeo brushturkey or Bruijn's brushturkey, is a large (approximately 43 cm long) brownish-black megapode with a bare red facial skin, red comb, maroon rump, and chestnut brown below.
Range and habitat
An Indonesian endemic, the Waigeo brushturkey inhabits mountain forests on Waigeo Island of West Papua. This bird is threatened by hunting, ongoing habitat loss, small population size, and a limited range.
Habitat labels include forest.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Consequently, it was uplisted to Endangered status in 2008.
Waigeo Brush-turkey is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Waigeo Brush-turkey, Wikidata item Q1262276. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
