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Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0801 20211215 - male: fleshy wattle from forehead dangles beside bill. CLICK for white plumage
(domestic-type) version.

Notes: Large-bodied, long-legged & small-headed bird. Truely wild turkeys are agile & can fly.
Male body plumage glossy, fleshy wattle dangles from forehead to beside the bill. The huge male
(domestic-type) would not fly. Female smaller, less glossy, head greyer, wattle absent.
In farmland, grassland w. some wooded cover.

Range: any grassy area.

Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0787 20211215 - from right: female, male, juvenile

Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0785 20211215 - two young males (?)

Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0847 20211215 - male (domestic type). CLICK for another view.

Grassy Road, King Island, Tas IMG_1290 20211215 - female with three chicks.

Currie, Kig Island, Tas IMG_2591 20211219 - female: greyer head, no pendant wattle on forehead.

Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0786 20211215 - male and female turkeys, including a white bird.

Currie, King Island, Tas IMG_0874 20211215 - male, domestic type, on display.

Grassy Road, Kig Island, Tas IMG_1258 20211215 - juvenile: not irridescent, some down on head.