Bruijn's Brush-turkey

An Indonesian endemic, Bruijn's Brush-turkey occurs in mountain forests on Waigeo Island of West Papua.

The Bruijn's Brush-turkey is classified as Endangered (EN), considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

An Indonesian endemic, Bruijn's Brush-turkey occurs in mountain forests on Waigeo Island of West Papua. Previously known from less than twenty-five specimens, this little-known species was relocated in 2002. The name commemorates the Dutch merchant Anton August Bruijn. This bird is threatened by hunting, ongoing habitat loss, small population size and a limited range. It was formerly classified as a Vulnerable species by the IUCN. But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed. More

Bruijn's Brush-Turkey Aepypodius bruijnii on Waigeo, Papua, Indonesia = by Iwein Mauro - June 6, 2002 An opportunistic survey of Mount Nok - located on the far eastern side of Waigeo's Majalibit Bay - undertaken this May month by Iwein Mauro, resulted in the first observations in the wild of the virtually unknown Bruijn's Brush-turkey. More

suggests that Bruijn's Brush-turkey occurs at low density, probably with specialised habitat requirements within higher altitude forests, and that it is extremely sensitive to human disturbance. It is certainly elusive; at least 15 expeditions have earlier searched for it without success, and at one time it was even doubted if Waigeo really could be its home territory. Fortunately, the bird's preferred steep, high-altitude forest habitat is not conducive to logging or farming and is rarely visited by local people. More

Adult mound-tending male Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii photographed for the first time ever in the wild, atop its nest mound in ridgetop cloud-forest on Mount Danai, Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat group, eastern Indonesia. Copyright © Charles Davies and Papua Expeditions/cv.Ekonexion. Early in April 2007 PE resident birders Iwein Mauro and Zeth Wonggor, and British bird watcher Charles Davies watched a fine adult male brush-turkey persistently displaying from atop its nest mound just four meters away from their hide in ridgetop cloud-forest on Mount Danai. More

Rediscovery of Bruijn's Brush-turkey on Waigeo Island, Sorong, Irian-Jaya, Indonesia On March 1999, the Waigeo Expedition 1999 was organised, first, to carry out an intensive search to rediscover the 'long lost' Aepypodius bruijnii, and, second, to do a bird inventory in general. It was followed by the second Waigeo Expedition in 2000. Almost all Waigeo villages were surveyed and several treks into the nearly inaccessible, rugged and densely forested interior of the island (total surface about 3,200 sq. More

name for the Bruijn's brush-turkey) as remains of their meal to Kris Tindige, who immediately preserved the materials in alcohol. These remains were carefully studied and compared to other Megapodes, using photos, measurements and illustrations from literature by Heij, Post and Tindige. Heij and Post, the Dutch members of the Waigeo Expeditions, studied in 1999 the mounted specimens of Bruijn's brush-turkey and other closely related Megapode-species in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (Java-Indonesia). More

Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii is only known with certainty from Waigeo Island and hence its alternative vernacular name of Waigeo Brush-turkey. Copyright © Papua Expeditions/cv.Ekonexion and C. Davies Waitanta : Waigeo and Batanta = The fabled Raja Ampat or ‘Four Kings’ archipelago comprises over four million hectares of land and sea off New Guinea’s northwestern tip. More

Adult mound-tending male Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii photographed for the first time ever in the wild, atop its nest mound in ridgetop cloud-forest on Mount Danai, Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat group, eastern Indonesia. Copyright © Papua Expeditions/cv.Ekonexion and C. More

Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii IWEIN MAURO (2006). Bird Conservation International, Volume 16, Issue 04, December 2006 pp 279-292 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=584212 Blog this Article Bird Conservation International (2006), 16 : 279-292 Cambridge University Press Copyright © BirdLife International 2006 doi:10. More

For details, see: Endangered Bruijn's Brush-turkey photographed for the first time in the wild on a PE exploratory bird tour, 2 July 2007, by Papua Expeditions. More

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Endangered Bruijn's Brush-turkey photographed for first time in the wild Birdwatchers on a Papua Expeditions (PE) exploratory bird tour to Mount Danai on the Indonesian island of Waigeo have taken the first photographs in the wild of the endemic Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii, a unique species of megapode which remained entirely unknown in the living world for more than 120 years between its formal description from trade skins in 1880 and its field discovery by PE resident birder Iwein Mauro More

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Adult mound-tending male Bruijn's Brush-turkey photographed for the first time ever in the wild, atop its nest mound in ridgetop Mount Danai, Waigeo Island, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (Monotypic species) 3 April 2007 23 March 2009 4.3 Sounds See all 457 sounds * Garnet Pitta (Pitta granatina) Song. More

The Bruijn's brush-turkey was caught in the heavily forested interior of the tiny island of Waigeo, off north-west New Guinea, as the men hunted wild pigs. But after they had dined, another man recognised the remains and told the villagers the bird was "wanted". The men injected the discarded head with formaldehyde normally used to preserve Birds of Paradise and kept the bones to give to the World Pheasant Association (WPA). More