Wild Turkey

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Wild Turkey | Adult wild turkeys have long reddish-yellow color in the legs gray-green. The body feathers are black and dark brown usually typically a copper luster, becomes more complex in adult men. Adult males, called symptoms or males have a large, feathers, red head, red throat, and red wattles on the throat and neck. The head has fleshy growths called baleen. Youth as Jake, the difference between a male adult and a minor, is that Jake a short beard and tail feathers fan is in the center. The fan tail adult male take much. The purpose of the long fleshy nose of a network male. If you turn a turkey, head turning blue, if you're willing to fight, which is red. Like many other species of birds have sexual dimorphism chickens turkeys. Females, called hens have feathers that are duller overall, in shades of brown and gray. Parasites can dull coloration of both sexes, males, coloration may serve as a sign of health. 5000-6000 turkeys have feathers. Tail feathers are the same length in adults, adolescents in different lengths.

Beards average 230 mm (9.1 inches) in length. Male adult (or "tom"), which usually weighs 5.11 kg (11 to 24 pounds) and measured 100-125 cm (39-49 inches) in length. The wings are relatively low, which is typical of the Galliformes order and scale ranges from 1.25 to 1.44 m (4 ft 1 inches to 4 feet 9 inches). Bill is also relatively low, as adults, measuring 2 to 3.2 cm (0.79 to 1.3 inches) long spout. The tarsus of Wild Turkey is quite long and robust, measuring from 9.7 to 19.1 cm (3.8 to 7.5 inches). Registration of Wild Turkey male adult size, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation, weighed 16.85 kg (37.1 lbs), with shots of male turkeys weighing more than 13.8 kg (30 lbs) from time to time, but not rare .

Turkeys have many sounds. "Devourer", "hen", "roll", "melted", "shout", "Cutts", "groans", "laughing" and "kee-Kees" In early spring, turkey, turkey or tom, gobble to compete with their presence to females and males to proclaim. Immature men, called Jakes, often barking. Wild turkeys prefer deciduous and conifers with scattered as pastures, fields, orchards and seasonal wetlands openings mixed. Mature forest with a variety of mixed tree species seem to prefer. In the north-east of North America, Turkey, the most common oak hickory (Quercus-Carya) are forests and red oak (Quercus rubra), beech (Fagus grandifolia), black cherry (Prunus serotina) and white ash (Fraxinus americana ). Bald cypress and sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) Swamp Arts. Florida also difficult Cliftonia (Moor) and oak in north central Florida. Original habitat here mostly longleaf pine (Pinus australis) with turkey oak (Quercus laevis) and white pine (Pinus caribaea) today "Flatwoods" generally inclined replaced by pine plantations. The wild turkey throughout its range, plays an important role in the cultures of many Indian tribes of North America.

many leaders, such as Catawba chiefs traditionally wore turkey feather jewelry. important populations of different tribes, including Muscogee Creek and Wampanoag wore turkey feather cloaks. Turkey Clan is one of the three Lenape clans. Movements of wild turkeys inspired the Caddo tribe turkey dance.