Maleo: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the maleo lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Macrocephalon maleo
Group	Pheasants, grouse & game birds
Status	Critically endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Asia
Diet (main food)	beetle, fruit, seed, termite, Formicidae
Class	Bird
Order	Galliformes
Family	Megapodiidae

Where does the maleo live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the maleo in 1 country or territory across Asia.

Indonesia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What does a maleo eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the maleo as: beetle, fruit, seed, termite, Formicidae.

Is the maleo endangered?

The maleo’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Critically endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the maleo?

The maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) is a bird in the order Galliformes and the family Megapodiidae, genus Macrocephalon. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the maleo

The maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) is a large megapode and the only member of the monotypic genus Macrocephalon. The maleo is endemic to Sulawesi and the nearby smaller island of Buton in Indonesia. It is found in the tropical lowland and hill forests, but nests in the open sandy areas, volcanic soils, or beaches that are heated by the sun or geothermal energy for incubation.

The megapode is named from a North Halmahera language (see Ternate: moleo, Tidore: muleu) transmitted via Ternate Malay maleu and later Ambon Malay maleo.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Maleo (revision 1374183583), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q836291 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).