What is wild turkey?
wild turkey or meleagris Gallopavo is a native of North America. It is a plump, mostly brown ground bird, even if it can fly at short distances. Turkey is a large bird and an adult man can be four feet long (1.2 meters). Birds have a loud shout "Gobble", which is the disclosure of their presence. Wild Turkey is a popular gaming bird for North American hunters.
turkeys mostly have a brown feathers that end with black tips, with a feathers with a wing that can be green to copper. Males and women do not have a feathers on their neck and heads, but male wild turkey has a large, fleshy red spot of skin called wattle. Both sexes have a fleshy ball of skin called snood on the front of the head. Wild turkeys show sexual dimorphism, which means that men and women look different. Men are larger, show more colored and have a feather similar to a bristle. Male turkeys are called toms while women are referred to as hens.
wild turkey is a member of the Phasiani familyDae. There are two subspecies, one in North America and one in southern Mexico. Birds can live in different habitats, but often occur near oak forests, because acorns are one of their preferred foods. Birds also spend nights on the trees, and therefore usually occur near the edge of the forest if they are not inside.
Turks will get most of the food on or near it. They will eat fallen nuts, fruit, some vegetation and sometimes insects. Chicken cultivation relies more on insects in the diet. In the wild you can observe the turkeys scratching ground residues in the search for seeds.
Wild turkey man is involved in competing displays in a group called Lek to attract women. Male turkeys have more partners and do not help building a nest or raising chickens. The female builds raw nests in the ground; Sometimes it is no longer and a shallow depression. Females can lay on approximately fifteen eggs that haveIt eats about twice the size of chicken eggs.
Wild turkey woman lifts the chicks, sometimes in groups with other hens and their chickens. Male chickens spend their first year with their mother, while female chickens become independent in the first year. Wild turkeys can spend their lives in the same area if there are enough food and shelter.