megapode

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
megapode /ˈmɛgəpəʊd/

▶noun a large ground-dwelling Australasian or SE Asian bird that builds a large mound of plant debris to incubate its eggs. [Family Megapodiidae: several species.]

– origin C19: from mod. L. Megapodius (genus name), from mega- + Gk pous, pod- ‘foot’.