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Gobble Gobble Gobble: Happy Thanksgiving Day to our American friends and neighbors. How about a few words for those turkeys out there? Males are called gobblers or toms; females are called hens.
Males have what is known as a beard, a bristly mass of feathers found on the breast. Immature males, called jakes do not normally have an obvious beard. Bearded birds aren't always males. Sometimes you’ll find a female with a beard. Males also have a fleshy growth, called a "wattle," that hangs from underneath the chin. In addition, gobblers have growths called "caruncles" (car-uncle) located on the side and back of the neck. The "snood" or "dew bill" is the fleshy thing growing above and resting across the bill.
How’s that for some new vocabulary words? A cornucopia of information about wild turkeys is provided this Thanksgiving Day by the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Wisconsin? Yes, there are turkeys in Wisconsin; although, they're said to have come from Missouri. That might explain the odd bearded female.
Posted by abnu on Thursday, November 27, 2003 @ 3:42 AM [ + ]

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