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OIL PAINTING – BRUSH TURKEY – KANGAROO ISLAND by Maureen Finck.

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.

Brush turkey eggs are very large, and make great omelettes because they are 80 per cent yolk.

During the Great Depression when jobs and food were scarce the Brush Turkey became a reliable source of meat and eggs. In fact, in the 1930’s the birds were nearly wiped out. Since 1972 they have become a protected species.

In many places in Australia brush turkeys are totems for Aboriginal people.

Brush Turkey – Kangaroo Island

Original price was: AUD$930.Current price is: AUD$837.
Size: 76w x 101h x 3.75d cms
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OIL PAINTING – BRUSH TURKEY – KANGAROO ISLAND by Maureen Finck.

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.

Brush turkey eggs are very large, and make great omelettes because they are 80 per cent yolk.

During the Great Depression when jobs and food were scarce the Brush Turkey became a reliable source of meat and eggs. In fact, in the 1930’s the birds were nearly wiped out. Since 1972 they have become a protected species.

In many places in Australia brush turkeys are totems for Aboriginal people.

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