Bruijn's Brush-turkey is restricted to Waigeo Island in Indonesia. It builds a mound in high cloud forest, where heat from decomposing leaf litter incubates its eggs.
The male is brown, greyer above, with a chestnut breast. Red bare skin on the face and neck bears wattles, and the red comb is conspicuous in the breeding season. The female has a smaller comb and absent or reduced wattles.
Waigeo Brushturkeys inhabit Indonesia’s Waigeo Island. Males build mounds of leaf litter and other organic material, whose microbial decomposition supplies incubation heat. Low montane forest with mossy, fern-covered trees surrounds these breeding sites.
A 2006 paper mapped mounds during surveys in 2002–03. The 78 sites recorded on Mount Nok and Mount Sau Lal lay at 620–930 metres elevation. Their incubation sites occurred higher than those of the other megapode breeding in the island’s lower forests.
Sixty-nine of the 78 sites clustered around ridge tops and their supporting flanks. The remaining valley sites lay near permanent water holes. Breeding sites were therefore unevenly distributed through the steep mountain landscape, following particular parts of its terrain.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The 2006 field study identified fire damage and logging in lowland forest corridors as conservation concerns. Proposed measures included fire-prevention outreach, hunting restrictions at core breeding sites, surveys of unexplored mountains and research on introduced mammalian predators.