Birds That Never Hatch Their Eggs

Megapods
Characteristics:

Live underground
Extremely strong legs
Dig large nests from sand/decaying leaves
Use natural heat to incubate eggs
Some megapode species do NOT incubate their eggs with their bodies.

Instead:

They bury their eggs in hot sand

or piles of decaying leaves that generate heat

When hatched:

They dig themselves out of the ground

Almost immediately survive on their own

This is an extremely unique evolutionary adaptation in the bird world.
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