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- Thanksgiving Turkeys May Be Harder To Get in Future
"Turkeys will adjust their behavior and could become harder to detect and harder to harvest," researcher Nickolas Gulotta said.
11/28/2024 - 6:48 pm | View Link - Wild turkeys are becoming hard to find as they learn to outsmart hunters
Turkeys are outsmarting hunters by adapting to survival challenges. Bold turkeys face hunters’ traps, while cautious ones evade capture.
11/28/2024 - 4:16 pm | View Link - Future Thanksgiving dinners at risk, Turkeys outsmarting hunters old-techniques
New research suggests that Thanksgiving turkeys may become harder to hunt as wild birds adapt to hunters’ strategies.
11/28/2024 - 10:34 am | View Link - ‘Aggressive’ Turkeys 'Terrorize' Man Trying to Leave His House & People Are Cracking Up
Turkeys will peck, follow, or try and intimidate people that they're attacking. Male turkeys will puff out their chests, fan their tail feathers, strut while they're gobbling, and have special ...
11/28/2024 - 8:30 am | View Link - Gobble Gobble: Did you know you wild turkeys can fly up to 60 mph? This and other cool facts about America's coveted bird
On Thanksgiving, plenty of folks will have turkey for the main course. Properly prepared, the big bird can be juicy and delicious. But most folks will have domestic foul, fattened up at farms.
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- Wild Turkey Identification
Wild 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. Turkeys are dark overall with a bronze-green iridescence to most of their plumage.
11/28/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Website - Wild Turkey Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Most North American kids learn turkey identification early, by tracing outlines of their hands to make Thanksgiving cards. These big, spectacular birds are an increasingly common sight the rest of the year, too, as flocks stride around woods and clearings like miniature dinosaurs.
11/28/2024 - 6:12 pm | View Website - Turkey (bird)
There 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.
11/28/2024 - 3:10 am | View Website - 10 Fun Facts About the Wild Turkey | Audubon
The Wild Turkey might be the most recognizable bird in North America. Of course, a big reason for that is due to its strong association with Thanksgiving, when the birds likeness is omnipresent. But the turkey's large size, impressive plumage, and distinct look make this bird hard to mistake no matter the time of year.
11/28/2024 - 1:08 am | View Website - Wild Facts About Wild Turkeys | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Those odd birds at your Thanksgiving table are even wilder than you thought. Amuse your guests with some offbeat turkey facts.
11/28/2024 - 12:25 am | View Website - More
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