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wild turkey tail feather

Meleagris gallopavo

Description:

large brown and black striped feather.

Habitat:

found in dune restoration area on lake Michigan shore

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4 Comments

AnnaWhipkey
AnnaWhipkey 12 years ago

Thanks for the feather ID everyone. Love the feather atlas site KarenL, thanks for the link.

Steffi
Steffi 12 years ago

I agree Anthony - it matches this: http://www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas/feat...

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Anna, you could always do a search on the feather atlas - http://www.lab.fws.gov/fa/index.php

AnthonyGreen
AnthonyGreen 12 years ago

Looks like a wild turkey tail feather.

AnnaWhipkey
Spotted by
AnnaWhipkey

Michigan

Spotted on Sep 8, 2011
Submitted on Sep 12, 2011

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