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Wild Turkey - (Meleagris gallopavo) 

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Identification

  • Large dark bird with iridescent feathers,
         long bare legs
  • Male's head and neck bare with bluish
        
    color, red wattles, feather tuft hanging 
         from breast ("beard")
  • Female duller coloring and smaller
  • 37-46" (94-117 cm.) 

Habitat

  • Deciduous woodland,
  • Forages in agricultural fields

Additional Information

  • Abundant permanent resident
  • Extirpated in Wisconsin in 1800's,
        
    restoration began in 1976
  • Male struts, fans tail, and gobbles in
         courtship display
  • Spends most of daytime on the ground,
        
    roosts in trees

Male Wild Turkey in courtship display

Female Wild Turkey in woodland

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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