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the word came from an American Indian name for the bird, which was “firkee”.
The turkey is nothing if not strange looking. The head of a turkey is brightly colored and has several appendages not found on other birds.
Eastern wild turkeys are part of a group of birds that include pheasants, grouse and quail. Wild turkeys are the largest of the North American game birds with an adult male weighing 17 to 30 pounds. An adult hen will weigh from eight to 12 pounds.
A reddish-blue head and neck, a long hair-like appendage known as a beard, a sharp bony spur on the lower part of each leg and black tipped breast feathers can identify gobblers or toms. Hens tend to be slimmer in appearance and have a less colorful head; they have breast feathers with light-colored tips and lack spurs. Tbms use the spurs on their legs for dominance fighting.
These are more than an inch long and can inflict considerable damage to any challenger.
The beard can be a loose gauge in determining the age of a bird.
Yearling gobblers do not
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