Brush Turkey Ken & Who Killed All The Giant Scary Spiders 😳

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Published 2024-04-15
There's a Male Brush Turkey egg incubation mound I look at every morning. I was keen to see a Bush Turkey chick emerge from the mound over Summer. I did find a number of Brush Turkey chicks darting about the bush reserve. It's this reserve where I found hundreds of Funnel Web dwelling spiders. Totally amazing to see this spider infestation. But in late Summer I find that something has dug up and destroyed the Spider holes. The amount of disturbed earth looks like WW3 had happened. It's a reminder that in nature there is always someone out to get you. Anyway nice to see so many Golden Orb Spiders appear in late Summer.

The Australian Brush Turkey, Australian Brush-Turkey, or gweela (Alectura lathami), also frequently called the Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Eurobodalla on the South Coast of New South Wales. The Australian Brush Turkey has also been introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is the largest extant representative of the family Megapodiidae, and is one of three species to inhabit Australia.

Despite its name and their superficial similarities, the bird is not closely related to American Turkeys, nor to the Australian Bustard, which is also known as the Bush Turkey. Its closest relatives are the Wattled Brush Turkey, Waigeo Brush Turkey, and Malleefowl

Web Links :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_brushturkey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider
australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/trapdoor-s…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot
All Comments (21)
  • @execation
    Nice cliffhanger at the end there 👏
  • @tomw2003
    Some crazy shots of funnel webs in here Leo! ⭐👏 Also that turkey hill is awesome!
  • @brooketesfaye
    the brush turkeys digging remind me of dinosaurs digging their nests
  • @Lukmanuke-rs1eb
    when i was real little i used to watch your vids with your son of yall reviewing transformer toys and my fav video was the haunted woody toy love to see you still working on youtube i thought you left and got lost into youtube but i found you just now by doing living woody toy
  • @petewg56
    Thank you Leo for an excellent video! You are awesome at this kind of video! Please do more!
  • @qwilfish66
    Great video and good seeing Fluffy 😊
  • @Steamenginesunited3456
    Really need to start reading books more because I had no idea there were turkeys in Australia
  • @PCrailfan3790
    I love seeing how beautiful your wildlife is in Australia
  • @arconisthewolf4430
    Leo ever thought of a public discord server? We could all get together and chat about stuff in the voice channels or show off our collection of knock offs and and art work! I think a Leokim Discord server could be really fun!
  • @teenagefc
    Ken has put together the biggest Brush Turkey mound I’ve ever seen. The lady turkeys have got to be impressed with that!
  • @NORTH_WESTERN
    5:40 the weird peely trees are probably causing the infestation, That bark looks perfect for spiderholes
  • @askavilucken8768
    Tip a tiny bit of water down the hole and watch them come out. I do this when I am worried about one of my tarantulas.
  • @1471SirFrederickBanbury
    I think you’re probably right with the tree bark correlation, but I know even less about nature, so only the experts can tell. The one thing I will say is that every trap door spider I’ve seen had an invisible trap door, no open hole, so I wonder how thats supposed to not be funnel web activity, what matters is that the bandicoots are doing their part is reducing human hospital visits due to deadly spiders.
  • @jaimeespitia9112
    leo you should one day tell us some childhood stories of funnel web spiders i cant imagine how many you seen in your life