Turkey Wild Thanksgiving gobble run hawk attack fly rare

Video shows wild turkeys vocalizing (gobbling), strutting, flying, and intereacting with other animals. A strutting male turkey scared away some deer. Also shows ree-tailed hawk attack turkeys and turkey attack crows. They seemed to vocialize in response to crow and goose calls.

The turkey is our Thanksgiving bird. They are huge birds. According to the Guinness Book of Records the largest turkey raised (not wild) was 39.09 kilograms (86 pounds) -- about the size of a large dog (http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:lTuWNE1DCuUJ:www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/th­anks/tkyinfo.html+largest+turkey&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us).

The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a native of North America and it is the heaviest member of the Galliformes

Turkeys are large birds. An adult male normally weighs from 5 to 11 kg (11-24 lbs) and measures 100-125 cm (39-49 in). Their wingspan ranges from 1.25 to 1.44 m (49-57 in). The record-sized adult male wild turkey, according to the National Wildlife Turkey Federation, was 38 lb (17.2 kg).

Grown male Wild Turkeys have a small, featherless, reddish head that can change to blue in minute; a red throat long reddish-orange to greyish-blue legs; and a dark-brown to black body. On their head can be fleshy growths called caruncles; in excited turkeys, a fleshy flap on the bill expands, becoming engorged with blood. Males also have red wattles on the throat and neck. Males have rear spurs on their lower legs. Male turkeys typically have a "beard" consisting of modified feathers that stick out from the breast. Beards average 9 inches (230 mm) in length


Turkeys have beautiful iridescent fethers, with long, dark, fan-shaped tails and glossy bronze wings. The males feathers have areas of red, purple, green, copper, bronze, and gold iridescence. Female feathers are duller overall, in shades of brown and gray. Turkeys have 20,000 to 30,000 feathers.

Wild Turkeys are agile fliers and very cunning and intelligent They are very cautious birds and will fly or run at the first sign of danger. They can reach a speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), in flight. They have many vocalizations: "gobbles," whines," "clucks," "putts," "purrs," "yelps," "cutts," " "cackles," and "kee-kees." Their gobble can carry for up to a mile. Males can also emit a low-pitched drumming sound. Hens "yelp" to let gobblers know where they are.

Males are often seen courting in pairs with both inflating their wattles and spreading tail feathers. Only the dominant male would strut and drum on the ground.

This year turkeys were made famous by Sarah Palin.

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[joerdm1991]

You make it seem like the hawk attacks the Turkeys, with the way you were shaking I thought it was attacking you...interesting stuff but name your videos more appropriately. I'm am currently in my turkey post...I hate Turkey hunting.

[IrenaScott]

@joerdm1991 I saw the hawk swoop toward the turkeys, but it was so fast that I was unable to photograph it. Later I was lucky enough to get a picture of the hawk watching the turkeys. Not sure what the hawk was doing.

[karpfarmer]

No gobbling at all in the video, those turkeys are yelping. I also don't see any young birds when it says turkey with young. Some decent footage though, turkeys are cool animals

[imback4thcav]

White head-Hen. Red head- Male. Butterball is second to the Wild Turkey in taste.

Spring is comming up!

[MrMaddog1992]

isnt the nick name for a big turkey like this witha white head and white tioed tail feathers a ....butter ball....

i saw one this morning in chatham, ny and it was about 80 yards out and wouldnt leave the hen he was with.

[ChristofK13]

@CERWIN24357, before you correct someone you should brush up on your wildlife. He's right its a yelp not a gobble. Thanks anyways professor

[CERWIN24357]

@telindac thats one way to interperate the noise they makes but its a gobble!!

thanks anyway professor

[telindac]

Not tryin to be mean and its good footage but the turkeys are yelping not gobbling

[kevincandi1998]

thanks so much for posting this. we are learning about the letter "T" this week. My daughter is 3-1/2 and she was able to hear the turkey gobble. Great teaching aid!

[DPKArizona]

I saw wild turkeys at Grand Canyon,Arizona too close by me. I thought turkeys will fly away from me nothing weird.