Feather preening is a full time job if you have as many feathers as a wild turkey.
TURKEY FACT : Feathers galore: An adult turkey has 5,000 to 6,000 feathers
They're social butterflies. Turkeys looove greeting visitors, making new friends, and being around others. They can even recognize human faces! This is absolutely true as one knocks on the glass storm door with a beak, asking for peanuts.
The wild turkey is an upland ground bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey, and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes. It is the ancestor to the domestic turkey, which was originally derived from a southern Mexican subspecies of wild turkey. Wikipedia
Mass: 11 – 24 lbs (Male, Adult), 5.5 – 12 lbs (Female, Adult)
Lifespan: 3 – 5 years (Adult, In the wild)
Clutch size: 10 – 14
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Length: 3.3 – 4.1 ft. (Male, Adult), 2.5 – 3.1 ft. (Female, Adult)
Wingspan: 4.1 – 4.7 ft. (Adult)
Scientific name: Meleagris gallopavo
Their intelligence is also evident in the fact that turkeys can recognize each other by their voices, and more than 20 unique vocalizations have been identified in wild turkeys. Turkeys living in the wild or on sanctuaries enjoy building nests, foraging, taking dust baths and raising young.
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