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Orange-footed scrubfowl

Megapodius reinwardt Dumont, 1823

LCLeast Concernbirds

The orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) is a species in the family Megapodiidae, order Galliformes. Recorded adults weigh 875.8 g to 1.1 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt)
Photo: Toby Hudson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the orange-footed scrubfowl

Weight
875.8 g – 1.1 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
5.5 – 9.25src for Young per litter or clutch
Litters or clutches a year
14.5src for Litters or clutches a year
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the orange-footed scrubfowl live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The orange-footed scrubfowl is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the orange-footed scrubfowl?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt), also known as orange-footed megapode or just scrubfowl, is a small megapode of the family Megapodiidae native to many islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as southern New Guinea and northern Australia.

From the Wikipedia article “Orange-footed scrubfowl” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orange-footed_scrubfowl&oldid=1384968526), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the orange-footed scrubfowl endangered?

The orange-footed scrubfowl is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the orange-footed scrubfowl classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderGalliformes
  5. familyMegapodiidae
  6. genusMegapodius
  7. SpeciesMegapodius reinwardt Dumont, 1823

Synonyms Megapodius affinis, Megapodius decollatus affinis

Other names and names in other languages (37)
  • Orange-footed megapodeEnglish
  • ScrubfowlEnglish
  • ScrubfowlEnglish
  • شقبان برتقالي الأقدامArabic
  • megàpode de ReinwardtCatalan
  • tabon oranžovonohýCzech
  • Torres BuskhøneDanish
  • ReinwardthuhnGerman
  • HaubenhuhnGerman
  • Rotbein-GroßfußhuhnGerman
  • oranĝpieda megapodoEsperanto
  • Talégala de ReinwardtSpanish
  • Talégalo de ReinwardtSpanish
  • punajalg-rihukanaEstonian
  • australianisojalkaFinnish
  • Mégapode de ReinwardtFrench
  • kukmasta kokošinaCroatian
  • narancssárgalábú ásótyúkHungarian
  • Gosong kaki-merahIndonesian
  • Megapodio piediarancioItalian
  • オーストラリアツカツクリJapanese
  • Reinvardo didžiakojė vištaLithuanian
  • Rood BoshoenDutch
  • oransjebeinovnhøneNorwegian
  • nogal zmiennyPolish
  • frango-do-mato-de-reinwardtPortuguese
  • frango-do-mato-de-pés-laranjaPortuguese
  • Рейнвартова курицаRussian
  • Оранжевоногий большеногRussian
  • tabon hnedýSlovak
  • Megapoda narandžastih noguSerbian
  • orangefotad storfotshönaSwedish
  • Reinwardt MegapoduTurkish
  • великоніг австралійськийUkrainian
  • 橙脚塚雉Chinese
  • 橙腳冢雉Chinese
  • 橙腳塚雉Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the orange-footed scrubfowl

Other species in the same genus Megapodius.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the orange-footed scrubfowl?

An adult orange-footed scrubfowl weighs 875.8 g – 1.1 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the orange-footed scrubfowl live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the orange-footed scrubfowl for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the orange-footed scrubfowl endangered?

The orange-footed scrubfowl is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the orange-footed scrubfowl?

The orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) belongs to the family Megapodiidae in the order Galliformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/orange-footed-scrubfowl

MLA

“Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/orange-footed-scrubfowl.

BibTeX
@misc{orange_footed_scrubfowl_2026,
  title = {Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/orange-footed-scrubfowl},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}