BRUSH TURKEY – KANGAROO ISLAND
$930.00
Oil painting on stretched canvas.
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My oil painting, ‘Brush Turkey – Kangaroo Island’ was inspired by a holiday on this beautiful island in South Australia.
The Australian Brush Turkey, also frequently called the Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, is a common, widespread species found in eastern Australia, and introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
These birds have a pretty tough start to life — the eggs are dumped in a very large mound of soil and plant material prepared by the male. The heat generated in this mound incubates the eggs. After hatching from their egg they spend the first two days of their life scrambling vertically through a metre of dirt and compost to reach the surface. Then the parent birds mostly ignore their offspring.
Brush turkey eggs are very large, and make great omelettes because they are 80 per cent yolk.
