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turkey, turkey, turkey
- Turkeys are able to adapt to a wide variety of habitats.
However, most turkeys are found in hardwood forests with
grassy areas.
- The best time to see a turkey is on a warm clear day or in a
light rain.
They
what?
- Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was
conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of
turkeys would drop dead.
- Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.
Eat,
sleep, gobble
- Turkeys spend the night in trees. They fly to their roosts
around sunset.
- Turkeys fly to the ground at first light and feed until
mid-morning. Feeding resumes in mid-afternoon.
- Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most
of the morning.
Eyes
in the backs of their heads?
- A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field
of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they
continue to elude some hunters.
And
they're fast, too!
- A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour.
They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between
50-55 mph in a matter of seconds.
So
close, yet so far
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.
This information has been taken from the
following sources:
http://infoplease.looksmart.com/spot/quiz-thanksgiving1.html
http://www.baltimoremd.com/content/turkey1.html
http://o2simplify.oxygen.com/celebration/thanksgiving/c_th_011.html
http://www.cquest.toronto.edu/env/aera/aera-lists/aera-c/98-06/0034.html
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