Turkey (bird) - Wikipedia
WEBThere are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Males of both turkey species have a distinctive fleshy wattle , called a snood, that hangs from the top of the beak.
Wild Turkey Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
WEBThe Wild Turkey and the Muscovy Duck are the only two domesticated birds native to the New World. In the early 1500s, European explorers brought home Wild Turkeys from Mexico, where native people had domesticated the birds centuries earlier.
Wild Turkey | Audubon Field Guide
WEBWild Turkeys usually get around by walking or running, but they can fly strongly, and they typically roost overnight in tall trees. Turkeys were formerly considered to belong to a separate family from other chicken-like birds; there are only two species, ours in North America and the Ocellated Turkey in Central America.
Wild Turkey Identification - All About Birds
WEBWild Turkeys are very large, plump birds with long legs, wide, rounded tails, and a small head on a long, slim neck. One of our largest and heaviest birds; smaller than a Trumpeter Swan; about twice the size (and four times as heavy) as a Ring-necked Pheasant.
Wild Facts About Wild Turkeys | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
WEBTURKEY FACT #1: Enough with gobble, gobble. Turkeys also cluck and purr. A pair of wild Rio Grande turkeys — a tom (left) and a hen — eye one another at Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. | Image Details. TURKEY FACT #2: Turkey droppings tell a …
Wild Turkey - National Geographic
WEBHear the tale of a popular game bird that nearly disappeared in the wild. Find out how flocks of wild turkey have reclaimed their old stomping grounds.
Wild Turkey - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
WEBThe Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland ground bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey, and the heaviest member of the diverse Galliformes (a group of game birds which includes grouse, pheasants, and partridges).
Wild Turkey - American Bird Conservancy
WEBThe Wild Turkey is the largest North American gamebird, weighing up to 20 pounds, with a wingspan of up to five feet. It's colorful, too — decked out in iridescent feathers of bronze, gold, and green, accented by colorful skin ornamentation and spurred legs.
Wild Turkey Life History - All About Birds
WEBWild Turkeys are hunted by coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, mountain lions, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and people. Nest predators include raccoons, opossums, striped skunks, gray foxes, woodchucks, rat snakes, bull snakes, birds, and rodents.
Wild Turkey - eBird
WEBAmong the largest birds in North America. The large-bodied, long-legged and small-headed look of a turkey is distinctive. Appears dark from a distance. Often seen in small groups in open fields near woods. Gobbling often audible in the spring and early summer.