Australian Brush-turkeys are a bit of a success story around Currimundi Lake. Only a few years ago you would be lucky to see one and then it would seemingly disappear after a few days.
When: Brush-turkeys are now here all year round and in abundance. The answer, I think, has been the eradication of foxes in the area. It's no coincidence that turkey numbers went up once a local feral fox trapping campaign started to bite.
Once upon a time, you would glimpse foxes in the bush in the early morning, but thankfully not anymore. The turkeys, and no doubt other less visible species, have been the beneficiaries.
Turkey nesting mounds are now seen all over the place. The males will spend ages shifting nesting materials to their mound. It sometimes looks like they're building a promenade to their nests. They will builds them across paths and even roads (as can be seen below).
Baby brush-turkeys, we call them Talulahs (which is their technical name*), are on their own once they hatch from the nesting mound.
*May not be true
Here's a video of a Talulah in the scrub as well as some general turkey weirdness:
