You can take a turkey quiz and test your knowledge of wild turkeys. They have their own magazine, Turkey Country. Compare the $75 we paid for a 10 lb (4.5kg) in Oz to the “free with purchase” or 19 cents/lb deals in the US around the holidays.īelieve it or not, there's a National Wild Turkey Federation that provides information on important topics like successful turkey hunts, turkey dogging and mouth calls simplified. People don't eat turkey so much in Australia and as such, it requires a small mortgage to purchase one for the holidays. We saw wild turkeys quite frequently in Australia including domesticated, pure white ones. The males have iridescent colored feathers of red, green, bronze and copper, but like most bird species, the females are drab. North American turkeys are primarily brown. In our neighborhood, they're pretty safe though … no discharging of firearms within city limits. Due to conservation efforts, the five species in North America now number in the millions and they're prime hunting game around this time of year. Turkeys are native to North America and their numbers dwindled drastically in the 1930's until they became nearly extinct. I don't appreciate their racket so early in the morning. I do, however, appreciate the fact that they're wild and free. I'm sure they're handsome to each other, but honestly, I just can't see it. Then there's the wattle, another red, fleshy bit that hangs under their chins. better known as a snood and very sexy to the girl turkeys, I'm told. They're weird looking with all those dark feathers and that fleshy red thing that hangs over the male's beak. These are big, honkin' birds and they don't look like Butterballs at all. During breeding season, when the male is excited, the snood may extend quite a ways past the beak and darken in color as the turkey becomes more excited.
#What is a snood on a turkey skin
We saw our first wild turkeys when we lived in Wisconsin and were mightily impressed by their size. A snood is a loose bit of skin that dangles from the base of the upper mandible of the beak and hangs downward. They take the same track past the window to their nighttime roosts and we can always hear them discussing their day's activities. Each morning … way too early for civilized, urban turkeys to be out and about … a gang of vociferous birds troops past, gobbling and gossiping, probably about some turkeys from another neighborhood who hog all the good food. The neighborhood flock evidently roosts nearby and for some mysterious reason, their turkey path takes them just outside of our window and man, are they ever noisy. These wild turkeys are on the prowl early in the day. The turkey alarm must go off just before first light because the total quiet suddenly erupts into a cacophony of sound, every turkey for himself and the day has begun. The once blissful sound of little songbirds has been replaced by big guy gobbles now and, frankly, it's not quite as pleasant. Cheeps, chirps, twitters, tweets and trills.
I love waking in the morning to the sound of birds.
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