Australian brush turkey chases snake out of front garden – video | Environment

An Australian brush turkey was filmed protecting its nesting mound from a diamond python, comfortably sending the snake running.

Brush turkey fathers protect their eggs, but once hatched the birds are left to fend for themselves with no parental care. The Australian native birds are common in parts of Queensland and New South Wales, and can make the nesting mounds close to urban areas.

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