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Wild North American Turkey

Meleagris Gallopavo

Photo by nybronxbommer
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Field Notes

Description:

Two turkeys, clinging onto each others' beaks. This is a male competition or like similar to who has the best pose.

Habitat:

Woodland or Forest like area

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Comments (2)
SG in CR
Having had turkeys and raised a few, I can say that they are probably young males duking it out for dominance. I seen this quite a few times among brothers when they were getting close to being full grown. In fact I have a picture I took I took a while back here, http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17560443 It seems that once they get a bit older the physical fighting gets pretty rare and it turns into a posing contest.

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PublishedMay 25, 2014

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