These ecosystem engineers are thriving along the east coast of Australia.
That’s just one message from Ann Goth’s new book ‘Amazing, Annoying Birds’, which explores these fascinating mound-building megapodes, expanding our knowledge about these much talked about colonisers of suburbia.
The gardens we create offer good soil and mulch for mound-building and plentiful food all year round, whatever the weather. How best to coexist?
Traditional indigenous knowledge changed scientific thinking about little known brush-turkey secrets and it may well change your attitude towards them too.
Gardeners all along the east coast are contending with these birds in denser turkey populations than ever before and yet it’s surprising how little we really know about them.
If you didn’t know that when a brush-turkey adopts your garden many species of snake will stay away, then this informative and engaging read is the next book you should buy.
Where to buy? See: https://anngothauthor.com/buy-books/
Jerry Coleby-Williams
Director, Seed Savers Network
Patron HOPE
6th March 2024
PS. See this link for a response I wrote to a question about these birds back in 20121
https://jerry-coleby-williams.net/2012/07/09/scrub-turkey-trouble-51/
Jerry Coleby-Williams 
Just finished Darrell Jones book Curlews on Vulture St. absolutely loved it. I’ll be reading this one now
I don’t mind my resident brush turkeys. We have a big mound in our suburban backyard and we happily all co-exist with ducks and cats. It took a while to co-exist, but we got there. We have brush turkey-proofed parts of the yard and the turkeys know what is theirs. Newer turkeys learn the drill. Sounds odd but it works. The brush turkeys are extremely useful raking leaves and keeping snakes away.