The Australian Brush-turkey is a large bird with dark plumage, a bare red head, and a yellow wattle. It rakes leaf litter for food, and males use mounds of vegetation to warm the eggs.
It has mainly blackish plumage, a bare red head, and a yellow throat wattle. Pale scalloping marks the underparts.
Male Australian Brush-turkeys build leaf-litter mounds used by several females. Decomposition warms the eggs; males adjust the material and check temperature with their bills.
Feathered chicks dig out, walk and feed independently, and can fly soon after hatching. Eggs and chicks face predation.
The birds occur in forests and suburban gardens. Leaf raking can conflict with gardening, making coexistence and human influences on behaviour local management concerns.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Eggs and chicks face predation, while suburban mound building and foraging can conflict with gardens. Regional guidance addresses coexistence with protected native birds.