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Wild Turkey

Meleagris gallopavo

Description:

From Wiki: Adult wild turkeys have long reddish-yellow to grayish-green legs. The body feathers are generally blackish and dark brown overall with a coppery sheen that becomes more complex in adult males. Adult males, called toms or gobblers, have a large, featherless, reddish head, red throat, and red wattles on the throat and neck. The head has fleshy growths called caruncles. Juvenile males are called jakes, the difference between an adult male and a juvenile is that the jake has a very short beard and his tail fan has longer feathers in the middle. The adult male's tail fan will be all the same length.

Habitat:

Wild turkeys prefer hardwood and mixed conifer-hardwood forests with scattered openings such as pastures, fields, orchards and seasonal marshes. They seemingly can adapt to virtually any dense native plant community as long as coverage and openings are widely available. Open, mature forest with a variety of interspersion of tree species appear to be preferred.

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4 Comments

Cindyloohoo
Cindyloohoo 10 years ago

Thanks so much, Meesha. :) I really appreciate it!!

Sew
Sew 10 years ago

nice photos!!!

Cindyloohoo
Cindyloohoo 10 years ago

Thanks, Mandy!! There were about 12 of them out there that day and they didn't seem to mind me intruding! :)

Mandy Hollman
Mandy Hollman 10 years ago

Great photos! Perfect timing on that first one :)

Cindyloohoo
Spotted by
Cindyloohoo

Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, USA

Spotted on May 24, 2013
Submitted on Sep 25, 2013

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