bm-Turkey

=**Turkey **=

**Physical description: **
 
 * **Feathers[[image:wild-turkey.jpg width="403" height="303" align="right"]] **
 * **No teeth **
 * **Beak **
 * **gizzard **
 * **Males have tails that fan out to attract mate **

**Size: **

 * **Up to ****//Four feet// **
 * **Up to //five foot// wing span **

**Average lifespan: **

 * **around //ten years// wild **
 * **about //ten-twenty one weeks// in a slaughter house **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">Habitat: **

 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">Meadows **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">farms **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">forests **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">north America **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">Haiwiian farms **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Range: **
<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">almost everywhere in North America **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">Diet: **

 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">Berries **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">nuts **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">worms **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">grasshoppers **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">very very very small snakes **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(154, 41, 199);">other bugs **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Behavior & adaptations to its way of life: **
<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Gizzards to grind up hard foods like nuts or berries **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Can't fly, so nests on ground **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(26, 209, 167);">Reproduces: **

 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(26, 209, 167);">eight to ten eggs **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(26, 209, 167);">polygamous males **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(26, 209, 167);">in spring **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(150, 230, 71);">Relationship to other animals (predator/prey, parasite, etc.): **

 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(150, 230, 71);">This animal is mainly prey, but is predator to bugs and worms **

**<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Relationship to people: **

 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many people farm them **
 * **<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yummy! Great thanksgiving mea l!**

Burn, Barbra. //North American Birds//. I. New York: Crown Publishers, 1984. Print.