A large, familiar-shaped game bird with a dark, iridescent body and a featherless, bluish head with red wattles. The female is smaller and less iridescent than the male, and usually lacks spurs and the tuft of hair-like feathers on the breast. In courtship, the male struts and gobbles with his tail fanned and the female responds with a yelping call. The Wild Turkey was almost hunted to extinction in the late 1800’s, but has made a marked comeback due to protection programs.
Diet
Turkeys are omnivorous. They eat vegetable matter such as acorns, nuts, seeds, buds, leaves and fern fronds as well as ground-dwelling insects and salamanders.
Activity Pattern
Diurnal (Active during day)