Description: English: Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus, 1758 - wild turkey at the Tennessee-North Carolina border, USA. (23 June 2008) Birds are small to large, warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered, bipedal vertebrates capable of powered flight (although some are secondarily flightless). Many scientists characterize birds as dinosaurs, but this is consequence of the physical structure of evolutionary diagrams. Birds aren’t dinosaurs. They’re birds. The logic & rationale that some use to justify statements such as “birds are dinosaurs” is the same logic & rationale that results in saying “vertebrates are echinoderms”. Well, no one says the latter. No one should say the former, either. However, birds are evolutionarily derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds first appeared in the Triassic or Jurassic, depending on which avian paleontologist you ask. They inhabit a wide variety of terrestrial and surface marine environments, and exhibit considerable variation in behaviors and diets. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Galliformes, Phasianidae Locality: near Clingmans Dome, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ~Tennessee-North Carolina border, USA More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_turkey. Date: 23 June 2008, 11:13:03. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/8365383728/. Author: James St. John.
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Description: Phasianidae: Meleagris gallopavo Seen at Paynes Prairie State Preserve, near Gainesville, FL. Date: 13 May 2011, 17:57. Source: Wild turkeys. Author: Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Description: Another Wild Turkey from the same flock as yesterdays image that shows off the iridescent color in the males' feathers. Also here is another view of the hearing organ on their beaks called a snood. Also clearly visible is the beard that males and a few females possess. I tried to darken the background around the head but not quite enough. Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey as the symbol of the new USA. It has become the symbol for a Kentucky bourbon by the same name that was the favorite drink of Hunter Thompson. Males have Iridescent red, green, copper, bronze and gold feathers, which they use to attract females during breeding season.Females are drab, usually with brown or gray feathers. The dull plumage helps in comouflaging them when nesting and raising a family.Color Phases: A few wild turkeys have unusually colored feathers. These are known as color phases. There are four color phases: smokey gray color phasemelanistic color phase (all black)an erythritic color phase (reddish coloration) albino color phase (very rare). Date: 18 February 2017, 16:05. Source: Wild Turkey. Author: Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA.
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Description: English: Head of a male wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Captured at Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari, Denmark. Dansk: Hovedet af en hankalkun (Meleagris gallopavo). Fotograferet i Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari, Danmark. Date: 24 April 2010. Source: Own work. Author: Malene Thyssen. Permission (Reusing this file): Please credit this: Malene Thyssen (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene). Please let me know if you use my work. Licensing[edit] I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue. : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. You may select the license of your choice.
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Description: English: Wild turkeys in Cades Cove, in the Great Smoky Mountains of Blount County, Tennessee, United States. Date: 23 December 2013. Source: Own work. Author: Brian Stansberry.