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Wild TurkeyBird. Wild turkeys are very strong fliers, reaching speeds of up to 88 kilometers (55 miles) per hour over short distances. They are also swift runners and can run up to 19 kph (12 mph) for short distances.
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Wild Turkeys and the Colonists The Europeans who settled the eastern United States set about hunting turkeys for food and feathers, and clearing land for settlement, building construction, and agriculture.
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Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Although the Wild Turkey was well known to Native Americans and widely used by them as food, certain tribes considered these birds stupid and cowardly and did not eat them for fear of acquiring these characteristics.
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Wild Turkey Photos
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Wild turkeys are surprisingly agile fliers and cunning, unlike their domestic counterparts. Turkeys are very cautious birds and will fly or run at the first sign of danger.
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Wild Turkey
EASTERN WILD TURKEY
Photo Credit: National Wild Turkey Federation ...
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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
I accidentally flushed a Wild Turkey off her nest, revealing 12 eggs!
Alleghany Co., NC 5/27/07.
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Wild turkeys mate in the early spring. The male wild turkey gobbles to attract a female. He fans out his tail, struts around the female and lowers his wings and drags the tips on the ground.
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Wild turkeys form flocks of six to 40 birds that roost in trees each evening. In 1782, the turkey lost by a single vote to the bald eagle to become the national bird.
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The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a resident across a wide area of the United States as well as parts of Mexico and Canada. It is the largest game bird in North America and quite familiar to many Americans.
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The wings of the wild turkey are large and rounded, and even though the ratio of body weight to wing area is one of the highest in any birds, they are powerful enough for the turkey to reach speeds up to 55 mph (89 km/h).
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Wild Turkey Management
Hunting Information
Hunting, Wildlife & Habitat Publications ...
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Wild Turkey
310. Meleagris gallopave Linn. WILD TURKEY.-The Wild Turkey may be distinguished from the common domestic race chiefly by the chestnut instead of white tips to the upper tail-coverts and tail. "ad. I., about 48.00-50; W., 21.00; T., 18.
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Wild Turkey
Wild Turkey
Description
Distinguishing Features - Weight: 16 - 55 kg.
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Wild Turkeys Send This Site to a Friend A Beginners Guide to North American Turkeys ...
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Wild Turkeys often app roach and associate with tame ones, or fight with them, and drive them off from their food.
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The Wild Turkey, endemic in North America, is found from southern Canada south through the 48 contiguous states and along the Sierras to central Mexico.
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WILD TURKEY
Meleagris gallopavo
The Wild Turkey is a large gallinaceous bird characterized by strong feet and legs adapted for walking and scratching, short wings adapted for short-rapid flight, a well-developed tail, ...
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Wild turkeys apparently were very abundant during the 1800s in Arkansas, based on reports by early explorers and settlers.
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Wild Turkeys forage on the ground during the day and roost in trees at night. They are most active around dawn and dusk. They nest on the ground.
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Wild Turkey: USGS ... Zak's Gamebird Farm & Hatchery RECOMMENDED BOOK: Turkeys: A Guide to Management ...
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WILD TURKEY RULE CHANGES
The changes regarding the hunting of wild turkeys were approved unanimously by the Natural Resources Commission on March 17, 2009 and subsequently approved by the attorney general's office and governor's office.
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Wild Turkey Meat: Wild turkeys, while technically the same species as domesticated turkeys, have a very different taste from farm-raised turkeys. Almost all of the meat is "dark" (even the breasts) with a more intense turkey flavor.
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8. Wild Turkeys on a Marin hillside. They are apparently not native but they love those acorns. There haver been arguments made that turkeys were originally in Calfiornia but driven extinct by native hunters long before colonization.
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The wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, native to northern Mexico and the eastern U.S., is the species from which all domesticated breeds have been developed. The bird has buff-colored feathers on the tips of the wing coverts and on the tail.
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The Wild Turkey is a non-territorial, polygynous bird. Males perform courtship displays by strutting and gobbling. Females mate with them and then nest by themselves. Nests are shallow depressions scratched into the ground.
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The wild turkey of North America rarely exceeds 20 pounds in weight. Females weigh only half as much. Commercially, turkeys are selectively bred to have shorter legs, larger breasts, and to weigh more.
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Reproduction: Like the Wild Turkey, a close relative, the Greater Prairie-Chicken is famous for its impressive courtship behavior, in which as many as 20 adult males congregate in leks or "booming grounds" to display.
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Franklin favored the wild turkey instead. Despite his argument that the wild turkey was more important to American settlers, the bald eagle was declared the national bird of the United States in 1782.
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The Spaniards are credited with transporting wild turkeys from Mexico to Europe for domestication in the 16th century. European settlers brought domesticated turkeys back to the New World.
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Although related to the pigeon, the dodo was larger than the wild turkey. The plumage was dark gray with a whitish breast, tail, and wings, and the large black bill had a horny terminal cap. The dodo laid only one egg at a time, on the ground.
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Turkeys are domestic (farm) birds that were originally bred from wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopo). The adult female turkey is called a hen, the adult male is called a tom, and the young are called poults. A group of turkeys is called a rafter.
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Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird, because he thought the eagle was of bad moral character. The Bald Eagle has since become the living symbol of the U.S.A.'s freedoms, spirit and pursuit of excellence.
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Given the opportunity, turkeys will range widely eating vegetation, seeds and grains. Wild turkeys can fly strongly and roost high in trees. They are more closely related to game birds such as pheasants and partridges than to chickens.
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I fondly remember the wild turkey we had in Beaver Valley many years ago, who would go out of his way to spur me every chance he could. He certainly earned my respect! ...
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forests in eastern Kansas were remnants of a more extensive and continuous forest of earlier geological ages and had counterparts in Europe, eastern Asia, and the western United States. Oak and hickory were dominant trees, and the wild turkey, deer, ...
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Because bald eagles occasionally 'pirate' food from other species, Benjamin Franklin thought they were of "bad moral character" and a bad choice for our national symbol. . He suggested the wild turkey instead.
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More often, though, bobcats prey on rabbits and other rodents, as well as wild turkeys and other ground-nesting birds. Male bobcats are generally larger than females, and are more likely to take down larger prey.
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' The northern form of wild turkey, whose habits have been described in much detail by all the chief writers on North American birds, is now extinct in the settled parts of Canada and the eastern states of the Union, where it was once so numerous; ...
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currant and juniper, and all sorts of cultivated fruits and vegetables. Insects also contribute importantly to their diet, especially grasshoppers, crickets, and caterpillars. They are fond of flesh and are known to catch and eat small wild turkeys ...
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 See also: Turkey, Fly, Eagle, Grouse, Swift
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