The Native American Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo) is a large aboriginal  bird specie from North America which is famously identified for its exclusive physique. The Native American Wild Turkeys apparently resemble just like the domesticated Turkey which is in fact the off spring of Wild Turkey.Originally Wild Turkey had numerous species which are extinct by now and their traces can be fond from virtually 23 millions ago. Meleagris ocellata  is also another specie of Wild Turkey which belongs to the forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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The Wild Turkey has a large, fan-shaped tail and muscular pink colored  legs. The Wild Turkey has bald head and neck with a modest down curving beak. A fleshly lobe of skin is hanging from their neck and chin. They have really distinctive black tipped  body feathers and in the body of male Wild Turkey the areas of red, purple, green, copper, bronze, and gold iridescence feathers are found. The male Wild Turkey has a beard on his chest and an upwardly curving spur on his lower legs.  The female Wild Turkey with a feathered neck has brown tipped body feathers and she doesn’t have a beard. Her body size is smaller than the male. The typical weight of male Wild Turkey is 8.2 KG while the female has an typical weight of three.2 KG. The typical vocalization of Wild Turkey are of a variety of kinds which vary from their mood and seasons.

Wild Turkey is an agile and clever bird which can fly and move quite speedily assessing the danger. The Wild Turkeys don’t fly too significantly above the land and they can fly for 400 to 500 meters.  In the Spring season the male Wild Turkey gobbles in a very delightful manner to attract her female and his gobbling can be listened from a mile. Throughout the breeding season the female can lay up to 15 buff colored eggs  and she incubates the eggs for 25-31 days. The chicks or poults leave the nest shortly following hatching. Essentially the Wild Turkeys becoming the omnivore can eat acorns, nuts, seeds, fruits, insects, buds fern fronds and salamanders.The Wild Turkey has so significantly significance in the Native American culture. Their meat and eggs are both favorites for the Americans as meals. The feathers of Wild Turkeys also frequently created their way into the rituals and headgear of numerous indigenous tribes . Several ritual dances have been inspired by the movements of The Native American Wild Turkey.