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Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
42.9042, -72.2079
Field Notes
Description:
Male Description
Breast feathers tipped with black. Head and neck blue-gray with pink wattles. During spring display, forehead white, face bright blue, neck scarlet. Spurs on legs. Beard long and obvious, larger on older birds.
Notes:
The Wild Turkey was a very important food animal to Native Americans, but it was eliminated from much of its range by the early 1900s. Introduction programs have successfully established it in most of its original range, and even into areas where it never occurred before.
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PublishedApril 12, 2013
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