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wild turkey tail feather

Meleagris gallopavo

Photo by AnnaWhipkey
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Field Notes

Description:

large brown and black striped feather.

Habitat:

found in dune restoration area on lake Michigan shore

Reference Links:

Wild Turkey, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
AnnaWhipkey
Thanks for the feather ID everyone. Love the feather atlas site KarenL, thanks for the link.
Steffi
I agree Anthony - it matches this: http://www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas/feather.php?Bird=WITU_tail_maleA
KarenL
Anna, you could always do a search on the feather atlas - http://www.lab.fws.gov/fa/index.php

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PublishedSeptember 12, 2011

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