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Rio Grande Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo intermedia

Description:

Brown, iridescent body with a blue/pink featherless head. This is a mature male complete with a beard, but of course I only had my 400mm lens and he was too close so only got photos of his head. He was also missing his left eye, but I couldn't get photos of it since he would only look at me with his right eye.

Habitat:

At the bird blind in Palo Duro Canyon SP. I actually really hate it when the turkey come to the blind because they jump on the feeders and break them and scare off all the little birds, which I find much more interesting than this guy.

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4 Comments

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

How appropriate :) Thanks again!

mika.hyden
mika.hyden 9 years ago

Thank you! Your photo will be highlighted on Thanksgiving! Afterwards, you’ll be able to see your photo for about a month in the Pic of the Day Collection (http://greatnature.education.nationalgeo...). Thanks again for contributing to The Great Nature Project!

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

Of course, thanks so much!

mika.hyden
mika.hyden 9 years ago

Congratulations! We would like to highlight one of your photos, again, as National Geographic’s Great Nature Project Pic of the Day! Rio Grande Wild Turkey will be featured in the lower left corner on The Great Nature Project website (greatnature.education.nationalgeographic...), and the NG Education Facebook page.

We will attribute this photo to you by using your username, AshleyT. Once we hear back from you (either here or via email to GreatNatureProject@ngs.org), we’ll let you know which date we’ll highlight your photo. Thank you for sharing your observations with The Great Nature Project!

AshleyT
Spotted by
AshleyT

Canyon, Texas, USA

Spotted on Apr 12, 2014
Submitted on Apr 14, 2014

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